The Atomic Human
Session 1
Neil D. Lawrence
2024-09-26
MSt in AI and Ethics
The Atomic Eye, by slicing away aspects of the human that we used to
believe to be unique to us, but are now the preserve of the machine, we
learn something about what it means to be human.
The Diving Bell and the Buttefly is the autobiography of Jean Dominique
Bauby.
The ordering of the letters that Bauby used for writing his
autobiography.
Jean Dominique Bauby was the Editor in Chief of the French Elle
Magazine, he suffered a stroke that destroyed his brainstem, leaving him
only capable of moving one eye. Jean Dominique became a victim of locked
in syndrome.
Bauby and Shannon
Claude Shannon developed information theory which allows us to quantify
how much Bauby can communicate. This allows us to compare how locked in
he is to us.
bits/min
billions
2000
6
billion
~100
a billion
a billion
embodiment
20 minutes
5 billion years
15 trillion years
This can be disturbing to humans because we are used to a low bandwidth
communication rate.
The trinity of human, data, and computer, and highlights the modern
phenomenon. The communication channel between computer and data now has
an extremely high bandwidth. The channel between human and computer and
the channel between data and human is narrow. New direction of
information flow, information is reaching us mediated by the computer.
The focus on classical statistics reflected the importance of the direct
communication between human and data. The modern challenges of data
science emerge when that relationship is being mediated by the machine.
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The Atomic Human
Session 1
Neil D. Lawrence
2024-09-26
MSt in AI and Ethics
