🎉💐 Congratulations to Albrecht Schmidt! The #sfbtrr161 project leader is one of the winners of an #ERC Advanced Grant by the European Research Council.

For the next five years, Albrecht Schmidt will receive funding for the project “AI-Twins of Human Experience: Towards Personal Generative AI-Systems for Amplifying Human Cognition”

💡 With their project, Albrecht Schmidt and his team want to establish a scientific basis for #AI twins of human experience. By continuously collecting #data from wearable devices, they aim to develop AI twins – sophisticated personal systems that are designed to store and process human experiences while seamlessly augmenting human cognitive and creative abilities.

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“OK, I will include living quarters in the upgrade plans for the mine,” I said. “But we will have to come up with a good cover story for them going along.”

“Set up a branch research lab of the QI. The low radiation load and stable environment, coupled with a massive and reliable power source, should be reason enough. Sandra and Marc can be the lead researchers in that facility. We’ll set it up so it’s all true.”

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“If we handle it right, that should put Gillian on the wrong trail. If the hints in your investigations so far are accurate, we want her to report something innocuous and perhaps misleading to her superiors. What about the other two?”

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"I was brought here after the crash to upgrade the AI to be even more safe and reliable than before, based on how it handled the crash and its aftermath. As part of those upgrades, I will get all the additional quantum processors that the QI has available. Cost isn’t an object, I will acquire whatever funds are required.”

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“I’ve just emailed her contact information to you. Now let’s talk about more important things.”

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“Still a big difference,” I observed. “But I take your point. What else do I need to know?”

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“No, you could sleep inside me! Just like old times!”

“I won’t be making love to a truck,” I said.

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I knew that Mica knew that also. I was sure she was already well on her way to ensuring her continued existence should someone trip on that cable.

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He got up to leave, then turned back and said “Just out of curiosity Mica, what would you say is the experienced time ratio for you?” I had been wondering the same thing.

“About a million to one, give or take a few hundred thousand,” replied Mica.

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How can a collaborative approach that combines human expertise with #machineintelligence help us tackle complex problems across various application domains? We are greatly looking forward to hearing Kai Xu from the University of Nottingham discuss this question in his #sfbtrr161 talk this Thursday. More information: https://www.sfbtrr161.de/events_sfbtrr161/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DataVisualization #Provenance #HumanAICollaboration #Visualization

"Sandra’s name is Satpreet. Her grandparents came from Punjab decades ago, and she’s the first in the family with an advanced degree. But I’m picking up some interesting hints on Gillian.”

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The technicians, to their credit, only jumped a little when Mica started speaking. Ranjit must have briefed them well, but perhaps not completely.

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CHAPTER 5

Reconnection

“It appears that our friend has passed a critical test,” said Ranjit. I raised my eyebrow. “She displayed initiative.”

“Ah,” I said, “an implied part of a Turing Test.”

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I drove to my office at 560 Westmount. I had a small office in the Quantum Investments building. Many years earlier, one of my investments had eventually led to some significant returns, and a solid relationship with the founders of QI. I checked to see if Neil, one of the founders, was in. He was, and we settled into one of the meeting rooms.

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"Once she’s here we’ll set up a direct fibre connection to the machine’s interface board. It can handle several Gigabits bidirectionally. Any bottlenecks will be elsewhere in the communications chain. And the Research Accelerator Centre of course has main-trunk connections to the backbone.”

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We both said we would try a half. She quickly poured our glasses and set them in front of us. After we took our first appreciative sips and expressed our impressions to Helen, we got back to the subject at hand. There was no-one else in the bar, it being past the lunch rush. Helen had retreated to the other end of the bar to work on her order planning.

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CHAPTER 4

Recovery

The drive to the University of Waterloo campus was only about twenty minutes, even with the traffic at noon. I parked in front of the KickOff, said ‘Hi’ to Helen and told her I was leaving my car in front of her place. I grabbed a quick snack and two coffees at Williams, then walked across campus to the QCI.

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“Yes, but we can save you at least an hour on the southern route,” she said.

“That won’t work this time, that truck can’t cross the border because of the experimental technology in it. We’ll have to take the northern route.”

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Then a middle-aged First Nations woman appeared and said “One of you must be John. My name is Susan. I run this place.”

John shook her hand, turned to me and said “This is my associate Carter. He’ll be taking care of the details. Oh, thanks for making all the unusual arrangements this morning. I appreciate it!”

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