Technology Is Reinventing Humanity | Jordan Nguyen | TEDxSydney
Summary
TLDREl transcurso de la vida humana se está integrando cada vez más con la tecnología, desdibujándonos la línea entre lo virtual y lo real. La realidad virtual, con avances como el Oculus Rift, nos permite experimentar memorias vívidas en entornos inmersivos. La posibilidad de crear copias virtuales de nosotros mismos, utilizando grabaciones volumétricas y IA, abre un debate sobre la empatía y la conexión humana. La tecnología no solo nos permite interactuar con figuras históricas, sino también reflexionar sobre nuestras propias vidas y legados, cuestionando qué historias contaríamos y qué valores compartiríamos con futuras generaciones.
Takeaways
- 🌐 La integración de la tecnología en nuestras vidas está desdibujándo la línea entre lo virtual y lo real.
- 🤖 La tecnología está encontrando nuevas formas de mejorar nuestras capacidades, especialmente en áreas como la discapacidad.
- 👓 La realidad virtual ha evolucionado desde los inicios en los años 80 y 90, con dispositivos como el Oculus Rift ofreciendo experiencias inmersivas.
- 🛠️ El trabajo en tecnologías de asistencia, como sillas de ruedas inteligentes, ha incorporado robótica e inteligencia artificial.
- 👀 Los sistemas de visión estereoscópica permiten a las sillas de ruedas percibir el entorno en tres dimensiones.
- 🧠 La posibilidad de crear copias virtuales de nosotros mismos mediante grabaciones volumétricas y aprendizaje de comportamientos es fascinante.
- 💬 La integración de inteligencia artificial y reconocimiento de voz en estas copias virtuales puede permitir interacciones muy naturales.
- 👨👩👧👦 La idea de preservar la memoria de seres queridos a través de la tecnología puede tener implicaciones emocionales profundas.
- 🤔 La relación que tuvimos con una persona antes de su copia virtual puede afectar nuestra disposición a interactuar con esa copia.
- 🔮 La capacidad de interactuar con versiones pasadas de nosotros mismos puede ser una herramienta poderosa para reflexionar sobre nuestras vidas y decisiones.
Q & A
¿Cómo está cambiando la integración de la tecnología en nuestras vidas cotidianas?
-Estamos integrándonos cada vez más con la tecnología, lo que está difuminando la línea entre lo virtual y la realidad. Esto se está convirtiendo en una realidad gracias a la evolución del mundo digital.
¿Qué es el continuum entre el mundo real y el mundo virtual?
-Es el espectro que representa la variedad de experiencias y entornos que podemos tener, desde el mundo físico hasta el mundo digital, y en el que nos movemos y experimentamos.
¿Cómo se relaciona la realidad virtual con la vida diaria de las personas?
-La realidad virtual está comenzando a influir en la vida diaria; por ejemplo, se puede interactuar con amigos en línea, probarse ropa virtual y socializar en entornos digitales.
¿Qué sucedió con la tecnología de la realidad virtual en los años 80 y 90?
-Aunque surgió una ola de interés por la realidad virtual con la aparición de headsets, no era el momento adecuado y quedó eclipsada por el auge de Internet.
¿En qué tipo de proyectos ha estado trabajando el orador?
-El orador ha trabajado en tecnologías que pueden mejorar la vida de las personas, especialmente en el campo de la discapacidad, con proyectos como una silla de ruedas inteligente.
¿Qué es el sistema de visión estereoscópica y cómo se utiliza en la silla de ruedas inteligente?
-Es un sistema que utiliza dos cámaras para crear imágenes tridimensionales, similares a cómo funcionan los ojos humanos. Permite a la silla de ruedas 'ver' y 'pensar' por sí misma, integrando robótica e inteligencia artificial.
¿Qué significó el regreso de la realidad virtual en 2012 con el Oculus Rift?
-Marcó el renacimiento de la realidad virtual con un dispositivo mucho más avanzado y confortable que los headsets anteriores, ofreciendo una inmersión total en el entorno virtual.
¿Qué es la captura volumétrica y cómo se relaciona con la creación de copias virtuales de personas?
-Es una tecnología que captura de manera realista la forma y movimientos de una persona, proporcionando una 'caja' tridimensional que luego se puede animar y controlar con inteligencia artificial.
¿Cómo podría afectar la capacidad de crear copias virtuales de personas a nuestras emociones y relaciones?
-Podría permitirnos interactuar con seres queridos que ya no están, pero también puede traer emociones complejas y el dolor de recordar pérdidas, dependiendo de nuestra conexión con la persona copiada.
¿Qué posibilidades se abren con la capacidad de copiar a uno mismo a lo largo del tiempo?
-Nos permitiría revisitar versiones pasadas de nosotros mismos, reflexionar sobre nuestros sueños y objetivos, y quizás incluso ofrecer consejos o perspectivas a nuestro 'yo' del pasado.
¿Cómo nos hace reflexionar la tecnología avanzada sobre lo que significa ser humano?
-Nos hace cuestionarnos sobre nuestra humanidad, nuestra empatía y nuestras conexiones, y nos motiva a pensar en las historias, valores y legados que queremos compartir y dejar para las futuras generaciones.
Outlines
🌐 Integración de la tecnología en la vida diaria
El primer párrafo explora cómo la tecnología digital se está integrando cada vez más en nuestras vidas cotidianas, desdibujando la línea entre lo virtual y lo real. Se menciona que estamos en un espectro que va desde el mundo real hasta el virtual y que la tecnología nos permite encontrar nuevas formas de ser aumentados. Se habla de experiencias futuristas como caminar por sitios de redes sociales, interactuar con amigos de todo el mundo y probarse ropa virtual. También se hace referencia a la historia de la realidad virtual desde los inicios en los años 80 y 90, con viseros que causaban dolor de cabeza, hasta su renacimiento en 2012 con el Oculus Rift, que proporcionó una inmersión mucho más placentera. Se destaca la importancia de la tecnología en la mejora de la calidad de vida, especialmente en el campo de la discapacidad, con ejemplos de sillas de ruedas inteligentes que utilizan visión estereoscópica y robótica para mejorar la movilidad y la comunicación.
🤖 Creación de copias virtuales de seres humanos
El segundo párrafo se centra en la idea de crear copias virtuales de personas a través de la captura volumétrica y la inteligencia artificial. Se sugiere que no se necesita una IA avanzada general, sino una que aprenda aspectos específicos de una persona, como sus gestos y modales, para replicar su identidad de manera realista. Se plantea la idea de grabar a personas en un momento y espacio específico, permitiendo conversaciones naturales con copias virtuales, como si estuvieras hablando con Stephen Hawking o Elon Musk. Se discute el impacto emocional de esta tecnología, considerando la posibilidad de preservar la memoria de seres queridos fallecidos y la dificultad de lidiar con la pérdida. Se menciona la reacción de la madre del orador, quien expresó que no desearía revivir la pérdida de su padre. Finalmente, se invita a reflexionar sobre la posibilidad de copiar nuestro yo a lo largo del tiempo y confrontarnos con versiones pasadas de nosotros mismos.
👥 Empatía y conexión a través de la tecnología
El tercer párrafo aborda la perspectiva de la empatía y la conexión humana en el contexto de la tecnología avanzada. Se sugiere que la capacidad de experimentar la vida desde la perspectiva de otra persona, mediante la realidad virtual y la realidad aumentada, puede enriquecer nuestra comprensión y simpatía hacia los demás. Se presenta un breve vistazo a un proyecto colaborativo que ha permitido crear una representación virtual del orador, lo que demuestra el potencial de esta tecnología para transformar la forma en que nos comunicamos y nos relacionamos. Se cuestiona qué tipo de historias y valores compartiríamos con estas copias virtuales y qué legados dejaríamos para futuras generaciones, instando a la reflexión sobre la esencia humana y la importancia de la empatía y la conexión en un mundo cada vez más tecnológico.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Realidad virtual
💡Integración tecnológica
💡Continuum entre lo real y lo virtual
💡Aumentación
💡Visión estereoscópica
💡Integración de la realidad aumentada
💡Grabación volumétrica
💡Inteligencia artificial
💡Empatía y conexión
💡Legado
Highlights
The increasing integration of humans with technology is blurring the line between virtual and reality.
We are finding new ways to allow technology to augment us.
The future will involve a continuum between the real and virtual worlds.
Virtual reality (VR) technology has come a long way since the late '80s and early '90s.
The rise of the Internet overshadowed VR initially, but its potential was always recognized.
The speaker's work in technology has focused on augmenting disability, including a smart wheelchair project.
Stereoscopic vision systems allow for 3D perception, similar to human eyes.
The potential of VR became more evident with the Oculus Rift in 2012.
Immersive VR experiences can create memories that feel real.
The combination of VR and 3D point clouds suggests a potential technological revolution.
The idea of creating a virtual copy of oneself raises intriguing possibilities.
Volumetric capture of humans could create realistic virtual representations.
Artificial intelligence can learn specific mannerisms to replicate a person's behavior.
Natural voice synthesis is crucial for virtual copies to communicate effectively.
The concept of preserving family members virtually raises emotional and ethical considerations.
The speaker's mother expressed concerns about reliving the loss of a loved one through virtual copies.
The potential to copy oneself over time allows for reflection and self-assessment.
Technological advances prompt reflection on what it means to be human and the importance of empathy and connection.
The speaker presents a demo of a virtual version of himself, showcasing the potential for realistic virtual interactions.
The ability to step into someone else's perspective through virtual reality could enhance empathy.
Transcripts
every day we as humans are integrating
more and more with the technology around
us with the digital world it's
incredible but what we're finding is
that we're starting to blur this line
between virtual and reality I think it's
a pretty interesting thing because as we
integrate more with this technology
around us we're starting to find new
ways to allow it to augment us now we
will all find ourselves somewhere along
this continuum between the real world as
we know it in the virtual world we're
going to be moving into that future very
quickly you don't currently find
yourself telling your friends about the
other day when you were walking around a
couple of social media sites and you
grab some mates from the other side of
the world and sat in an online store
whilst one of them put on some virtual
clothes but the world is changing very
very quickly and so we need to keep up
with that we need to raise the
conversations as to what we could
potentially achieve now in the late
eighties early 90s there was this rise
of virtual reality we had these headsets
my dad got me to try these on these
headsets that would give you an
incredible headache and it's basically
like strapping a TV to your face but you
can look around and what happens then is
it makes it very immersive now back then
it wasn't the right time and it was
overshadowed by the rise of the Internet
but we could still see even then that
there was a future for this technology
so over the last 10 years I've been
working in technologies that can augment
us and most of my work has been in
disability I've worked on a smart
wheelchair for my PhD in 2012 and this
smart wheelchair was allowing you to or
a person who needed it I've mostly
worked in disability on communication
mobility in connection but this allow
do to control the wheelchair rid the
mind and the wheelchair could see and
think for itself like a robot so it had
robotics and artificial intelligence in
there as well now what was really
interesting is the camera that you can
see on the front the yellow camera
that's a stereoscopic vision system now
what it has is two cameras that act just
like our own eyes they take two
different images put them on top of each
other and with that just like we can see
in three dimensions it can project those
pixels into the third dimension giving
it a third ordinate and allowing a very
low quality 3-dimensional photo now this
was something I found on the Front's of
the via the laptop of the wheelchair I
found this the other day from 2008 I
have no idea what I was doing here but
that's me I think I'm holding some
recycling boxes but what you could see
there is you can rotate three
dimensional space because it's a 3d
point cloud so all these pixels reside
in three-dimensional space now that was
very interesting but the technology
itself has actually advanced a lot since
then now the rise of virtual reality
came back again in 2012 with the the
oculus rift has anyone heard of this
great ok this is good so we're on board
with this that's about half the crowd by
the way of what I just saw now when I
first tried the oculus rift I put this
device on my head and like the TV being
strapped to the face it was a lot better
than it used to be much much better what
I found was I found myself in a virtual
apartment and I was watching a virtual
TV and on this TV there was a music
video now I got really immersed in it
and then I started to realize when it
finished that I was still sitting in a
virtual apartment and then I took the
device off back to the real world but
the interesting thing was I remember
this as if it was a memory as if I had
experienced it and that's when I
realized it was so incredibly powerful
so with that type of power in that sort
of technology combined with the
the 3d point clouds from 2008 it made me
realize that we are standing at the
verge of a massive technological
revolution we could potentially realize
certain ideas as wacky as they are
certain ideas like being able to create
a virtual copy of ourselves and I
started thinking about that I thought
this would be amazing if we could create
a virtual copy what we need is 3d but
volumetric recordings volumetric capture
of a human and so this would be a very
realistic shell we give it a virtual
skeleton so that it can move and that
the computer can control it through the
programs then we get artificial
intelligence but not the general type
you don't need to have a very advanced
general artificial intelligence to allow
it to learn everything in go on to
continue to learn you don't need that
you just need an artificial intelligence
that will learn specifics about the
person being copied things like their
gestures their mannerisms the things
that make us us so that the person can
spend a lot of time with the system so
the system can learn what that Peart
what makes up that person and then of
course you're going to need a some voice
emphasizes that are very natural so that
the system can speak on their behalf but
what it will actually do is capture that
person caught in a moment in space and
time so it's kind of like we could
revisit these virtual copies and have
natural conversations with them which is
very intriguing because if we were able
to copy some of the most influential
positive change makers in this world
what if we had Stephen Hawking or Elon
Musk able to be copied so that people
could go and meet them in the virtual
world or even bring them into the real
world through augmented reality
something that was very interesting but
bringing it back to a personal level I
started to realize that I wanted to see
how it could affect us even more
emotionally starting to think about what
would happen if this was a family member
that we could preserve what we have here
is a picture of myself when I was a baby
with my grandfather
now he sounded like an absolutely lovely
man an amazing person and I would very
much love to meet him unfortunately he
passed away when I was just before I was
2 and he never got to meet my lovely
wonderful triplet siblings who are three
and a half years younger than me
so if this idea this concept existed in
the past I would absolutely want to be
able to meet a virtual copy of my
grandfather and be able to to speak with
him to be able to interact with him
because I would get a better idea of who
he was but I wanted to talk to my mum
about this because I had no idea how to
gauge this this idea that I had so I
spoke to my mum and I said what would it
what would you think if I was say you
know the technology is not not what not
available now but wasn't back then
either what would you say if I could
have brought back your grandfather and
we tears in her eyes she said I don't
think I'd want that because I would be
constantly reliving the loss and I
started to realize this idea is actually
very different it's very important to
recognizes there's challenges and
opportunities with every new
technological development so as much as
I would love it my mum would have a
different approach and the reason is
because our prior relationship with the
person being copied will affect the
response that we have having said that
it would be the best thing for me if I
was able to meet my grandfather so if we
take it to an even more personal level
what if we could copy ourselves
throughout time and be able to go back
and revisit ourselves in the past and
really understand the sort of dreams the
visions that we had did you ever have
those big ideas to do so much for the
world what would happen if your past
self were saying how are you going with
that
I think it's incredibly powerful what
would you say to your previous self and
what was your past self say to you now I
really would like to show you something
that we've been working on so this is a
amazing collaboration that we've had
from my guys at psychokinetic and the
brilliant people at humans to bring
together I'll put this in my pocket this
little demo and you can see the work
that's gone into it thanks buddy
now wait till you guys can see what I
can see let me know when you can yeah
you can see my little virtual stage here
yes now how would you respond think
about it for a moment how would you
respond if you found yourself face to
face with yourself
it's incredibly weird and realistic that
I am currently walking around a virtual
version of me now if this wasn't you
if this wasn't your own coffee here's
another interesting thing the amazing
response that we can have from this in
terms of empathy think about what would
happen if you can step directly into
someone else's shoes and see through
their eyes I'm currently wearing
something different now thank
now this was just a glimpse of what we
could potentially go on to achieve but
the exciting thing about this is
whenever we have these massive
technological advances the exciting
thing is that it makes us realize it
makes us reflect what it means to be
human
it makes us reflect on ourselves and at
the core of humanity is empathy and
connection so if you had a coffee of you
floating around potentially having
conversations with people I want you to
think about it what sort of stories
would you tell what sort of vision and
values would you share and what sort of
legacies would you like to leave for
future generations thank you very much
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