Big Data and the Rise of Augmented Intelligence: Sean Gourley at TEDxAuckland

Dr. Sean Gourley is the founder and CTO of Quid. He is a Physicist by training and has studied the mathematical patterns of war and terrorism. This research has taken him all over the world from the Pentagon, to the United Nations and Iraq. Previously, Sean worked at NASA on self-repairing nano-circuits and is a two-time New Zealand track and field champion. Sean is now based in San Francisco where he is building tools to augment human intelligence.

Description of Talk:
Each year computers are getting faster, but at the same time we as humans are getting better at using them. The top chess players in the world are not humans OR computers, but combinations of humans AND computers. In this talk, Sean Gourley examines this world of augmented intelligence and shows how our understanding of the human brain is shaping the way we visualize and interact with big data. Gourley argues that the world we are living in is too complex for any single human mind to understand and that we need to team up with machines to make better decisions.

http://seangourley.com/
http://quid.com/

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women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs shoudl relax and get used to the idea i feel like i've alreayd accepted you completely whatever i don't know, copmpletely, uncodntionally, with forigvenss at every thing possibl int he future, and you don't even knwo me but i need to work on my other things..and if i only walk on sunny days, we'll i'll never reach our/my destinationt in time for the heat death of the univerese

[Jason Kemp]

I recommend you watch this more than once. Augmented intelligence IS the next industrial revolution

[Joe Puntureri]

I really enjoyed your video!

Predictive behavior and the math involved is amazing.

[700]

I wish people put so much effort to make the world a peaceful, healthy and wealthy place for everyone.

But so far no one is even able to use me efficiently: bit.ly / UbIhRR