Skynet is coming!Deepak Azad

M.Sc. Student, Computer ScienceJunior Fellows Speaker Series

St. John’s College UBCImage: http://www.itweapons.com/tedblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/skynet.jpgFeb 19, 2013

Wait… What is Skynet?

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Overview

• Do we know how we think?• Machines that can think• How do they work?• Implications for mankind

Do we know how we see?– airplane.mov– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubNF9QNEQLA

Image: http://bibledaily.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/eye.jpg

Do we know how we think?• The doctor has good news and bad news

• Bad news: You have tested positive for HIV, and that the test is 99% accurate (i.e., the probability of testing positive given that you have the disease is 0.99, as is the probability of testing negative given that you don’t have the disease).

• Good news: Only 1 in 10,000 people are HIV-positive

• How worried should you be?

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Do we know how we think?• I have some money in my pocket and I will give $100 to the

person(s) who ask the best question(s), as judged by me.

• How many of you think that someone here will get $100?

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Let’s do the math• Let's say 1,000,000 people took the test. • Number of people who have the disease = 100 (Remember 1 in 10,000)• Number of people who tested positive AND who have the disease

= 0.99 * 100 = 99 • Number of people who tested positive BUT did not have the disease =

0.01 * 999900 = 9999• Probability that you actually have the disease = 99 / (99+9999) = 0.0098

Only 0.98%

http://womenonthefence.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/DontWorryBeHappy.jpg

When should you worry?• Let's say you underwent another test which is also 99% accurate and you

tested positive.

= 49.5%

http://drmichaelroth.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/worry.gif

If all your friends jumped off a bridge…

http://xkcd.com/1170/

Lesson

posterior = likelihood x prioror

new knowledge = data x old knowledge

• This is known as Bayes’ rule

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Lessons

• We only ever see a tiny bit

• We are pretty good at learning from data

• We can recognize patterns quite well

Autonomous Car

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdgQpa1pUUE

Face Recognition

Pedestrian detection

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_wMyUEeIzQ

Twitter Sentiment Analysis

• http://www.sentiment140.com/search?hl=en&query=Toronto%20Maple%20leafs

• http://www.sentiment140.com/search?hl=en&query=Vancouver%20Canucks

• http://www.sentiment140.com/search?hl=en&query=Calgary%20flames

Microsoft Kinect

http://boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/kinect-family-tv.jpg?w=942http://cdn.pocket-lint.com/images/wqZT/harry-potter-microsoft-kinect-xbox-360-1.jpg?20110712-094919

Google Glass

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSnB06um5r4

Source: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~nando/340-2012/lectures/l1.pdf

How does all this work ?

Hours of Sun

Temperature

Formally

Equation of line :

A little more complicated…

Hours of Sun

Temperature

Using prior knowledge and dealing with uncertanity

Watson playing Jeapordy

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Implications: Will machines take over?

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Implications: Will we need to work?

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Ethics and Morality

• Doctors and Insurance companies use the same tools – one to cure and one to deny insurance

• Should people be allowed to drive?– People’s freedom vs reliable machines