Slides to my talk at TEDx UHasselt Salon 2013 on the topic of "Communication creates change"

1. smart-phone or
sentient device ?
the smart-phone as
your sixth sense

2. Great to be here !
Working on Argus Labs
/ real-time contextualization API
/ sensor fusion and machine learning
Working on a first book
/ age of dreaming machines (20143)

3. New devices.
Same behavior.

4. The future is already
here…

5. In order to see the
potential, we need to
look past the form
factor…

6. … and into the heart
of a smartphone
Eye: Camera & Light Sensor
Ear: Microphone
Mouth: Speaker
Memories: Internet
Orientation: Compass & GPS
Equilibrium: Gyroscope Sensor
Movement: Accelerometer & Motion Sensor
Brain: CPU/GPU

7. … see the
resemblance ?
Eye: Camera & Light Sensor
Ear: Microphone
Mouth: Speaker
Brain: CPU
Spinal cord: Fiber optics
Memories: Internet
Orientation: Compass & GPS
Equilibrium: Gyroscope
Movement: Accelerometer & Motion
Touch: Pressure / Proximity

8. … sensors continually
stay in touch with your
environment

9. … and is able to interpret
context

10. 2013
processing nonverbal
communication
2000
carrying verbal
communication

11. Advancement 1
Understand the behavior and
emotion of a user

12. Advancement 2
Semantic understanding for
reasoning machines

13. Advancement 3
Which in turn allows machines
to interpret your context

14. “ ... based on movement pattern
detection, music mood
inference, sentiment analysis on
voice samples and deviating sleep
patterns we have found that our
algorithms are able to label a
high probability for the subject
to develop the symptoms of what
we would call a depression, before
the subject itself would become
aware of his infliction “

15. First Step: 2013 - …
human-machine wearables
smart-phone: external CPU

16. Second Step: 2020 - …
Implants and early adopters
Smart-phone: HUB

17. Third Step: 2020 - …
Strong Artificial Intelligence
smart-phone: docking station

18. Our smart-phones are already
a first generation of smart
agents that are able to
understand our context and
anticipate our intentions

19. Welcome your sixth sense