In this episode, Teri welcomes Brian Roemmele, the “Oracle of Voice” and the “Modern Day Thomas Edison.
Brian is the consummate Renaissance man. He is a scientist, researcher, analyst, connector, thinker and doer. He is actually credited for having come up with the term “Voice First”. Over the long, winding arc of his career, Brian has built and run payments and tech businesses, worked in media, including the promotion of top musicians, and explored a variety of other subjects along the way.
Brian actively shares his findings and observations across fora like Forbes, Huffington Post, Newsweek, Slate, Business Insider, Daily Mail, Inc, Gizmodo, Medium, Quora (An exclusive Quora top writer for: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013), Twitter (quoted and published), Around the Coin (earliest crypto currency podcast), Breaking Banks Radio and This Week In Voice on VoiceFirst.fm that surfaces everything from Bitcoin to Voice Commerce.
Key Points from Brian!
- The future of Voice: The Last Interface, the Intelligence Amplifier and the Wisdom Keeper
Where Voice Technology is going
- The talk he did at the Alexa Conference was dubbed “The Last Interface” and was based on the term “What if?”
- The Last Interface refers to the last interface that we will have with technology.
- We type to computers because they cannot understand our volition and our intent.
- Computers are already intelligent enough with current technology to take a user’s context and present to them the information that they are searching for. That’s the premise of The Last Interface.
Intelligence Amplification
- Brian presented this idea by searching through history how we developed the concept of why we speak (why we developed language). He found that we did it because our brain got too large.
- Humans had to offload memories into archival systems which became known as writing. Typing is an example of an extension of an archival system which means we are storing the things that we can’t pass on generationally on an offloaded system. Computers took over that and now we archive in systems and places like websites, Google, PDFs, and others, but it’s still an archival system and it still doesn’t transmit the volition and intent of an individual. The short term aspect is what Brian calls “The Intelligence Amplify”
- He doesn’t fully believe in the concept of AI (Artificial Intelligence) because he doesn’t think we can fully define what intelligence is in humans and where it comes from, and therefore, we cannot artificially create it in any way, shape and form that is human like.
- We have been trying to amplify our intelligence by archiving our world and our stories, whether they be allegorical, mythological or “factual”. Factual is as we see it today. All of our facts today will 1,000 to 10,000 years from now look allegorical to people because they will not be facts any longer, they will be seen as primitive.
- The Intelligence Amplify takes in everything around us. How this works; in this world, with the technology that exists today, the moment you’re born to the moment you die, is a device that will have a camera and a microphone. Assume that it has the highest security you can ever imagine and it never goes on the internet (it has no internet connection). It’s recording everything you’ve ever seen, everything you’ve ever read, every comment you’ve made, every comment you’ve heard, and everything is archived. All those things will be presented to you as the basis of your AI to derive context and to understand not only your paradigm (how you make you as you because you are the sum total of the experiences, good and bad, that define us as human beings), and so it starts amplifying your intelligence.
- During his talk at the 2019 Alexa Conference, he pointed out that the human being discards (exformation) over 99% of everything that comes through our senses.
- With The Intelligence Amplify, the best of us can be amplified.
The Wisdom Keeper
- When we die, everything is thrown away, but not in the world of The Last Interface, because the next stage is called The Wisdom Keeper.
- The Wisdom Keeper (your Wisdom Keeper) is important because it is the sum total of all of your experiences, the essence of your experiences. All that data will be stored on your person in form of a holographic crystal memory.
- Every human being has some wisdom to contribute to the world.
- A person’s Wisdom Keeper will be their testament, who they were.
Holographic Crystal Memory
- The breaches of people’s personal data like emails, pictures and others, and having that data leaked out to the greater public, will lead to some sort of rebellion to the idea that we will all have our privacy reaped apart.
- We are made to be private because that creates the dignity of an individual.
- The cloud has proven itself to be ineffectual to store even a few emails. Brian is not advocating for storing everything in the cloud, he just advocates that we are going to do it regardless, but hopes that people will be guided on it.
- When we have an intelligence amplifier in the wisdom keeper world, the penalty for hacking this non-internet connected device without the permission of an individual will be equivalent to a murder one charge.
- With current technology, we can store 15 to 20 years of a person’s life easily. These devices will eventually go smaller.
- In future, we will have holographic crystal memory. Crystalline structures are incredibly stable for holding information over long periods of time. We are using nano-doping within crystals to create the substrate that allows us to store information.
- The sum total of our experiences will be stored in holographic crystal memory because it will sustain over the ages. It is the survival archival system that will have the throughput, bandwidth, and storage system (petabyte capabilities) to store every single waking and sleeping moment of a person’s life.
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