Augmenting Brains
Welcome and Intro by Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D, Research Scientist at MIT Media Lab; Creator, Curator and Organizer of Augmenting Brains.
Lecture by Prof. Pattie Maes – MIT Media Lab; Media Arts and Sciences.
Writing to the Brain, Part 1 – Implanting Memories
Lecture by Prof. Elizabeth F. Loftus – UCI School of Social Ecology; Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science.
Writing to the Brain, Part 2 – Writing to the Brain in Sleep.
Lecture by Dr. Nathan Whitmore – Researcher, MIT Media Lab
Nathan Whitmore talks about how sleep can be used to change memories and modify brain function.
Living with a Brain-Computer Interface.
Lecture by Theresa Vaughan, BA, National Center for Adaptive Neurotech.
Towards future systems? Part 1 - Living Wires
Lecture by Prof. Kacy Cullen, University of Pennsylvania.
Living electrodes for linking brains to computers is the topic of this lecture.
Nerve cells modified to respond to light and act as “living electrodes” have been successfully implanted in the brains of animals. The hope is that they will provide a better and longer-lasting way to link brains with computers than conventional electrodes.
Towards future systems? Part 2 – Holograms, AGI, Entertainment and Beyond.
In conversation: Steven Kane, television and theater writer, producer, director and Dr. Nataliya Kosmyna, Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab.
This conversation is centered around Cortana, a fictional AGI from HALO. This type of AGI is created out of brain liquid from a human brain. Being a co-creator and showrunner of HALO, Steven shares with us how and what it took to create a fictional AGI on a screen, which became a perfect partner for Master Chief. A partner we all would want to have...in our heads.
While ChatGPT spits out nonsense about the world, check the video to learn more about a perfect AGI, the one we all truly mean and imagine when we talk about AGIs - the one working for us, with us, learning with us, learning from us, the one truly augmenting us as species, pushing our intelligence on a new level of evolution – Singularity, a whole new species.