William P. Doyle
President & CTO, Value Spring Technology
NSS International Space Development Conference
May 18-22, 2016 Puerto Rico
Changing Paradigm for Artificial Intelligence: Machine AI becomes
Human AI
 1950’s foundation of modern AI (Artificial Intelligence):
 McCarthy coined the term Artificial Intelligence as "the science and engineering of
making intelligent machines”
 Turing proposed his “Imitation Game” Test:
play a game, write a sonnet, answer a
question and engage a human in a dialog
Antikythera
Greek Computer
Built 205 B.C.
 Von Neumann wrote “The Computer and
the Brain” showing the Brain to be Digital
with Computer-like computation
 By 2016, Google’s Alpha-Go, IBM’s Jeopardy
playing Watson and chess playing Deep Blue
and other systems could pass all but the last
Turing Test: Human Dialog
 Why is Human Dialog so hard?
 Von Neumann’s answer: all the other Turing tasks are “well-defined forms of
Computation”. Human Dialog does not have a precise solution (computation).
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Human AI Requires three Key Functions Missing from Machine AI
1. Human Level Meaning Architecture
Knowledge Self Organized
into 3-D Hypercubes with
Measurable Properties:
2. Human Level Learning
AI Performs three Steps to Learn:
See + Do + Rationalize/ Teach
3. Self-Reference, Self-Programming
AI Observes Self Operation and
Changes it’s Operating Story
General Purpose Human AI behaviors such as Human Dialog are Emergent
Properties of these three Key Functions
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Human Meaning Architecture -- Hypercubes (Voxels) Color-Coded
for Semantic Ontology (from FMRI Data)
Voxel Selectivity
colors show
approximate semantic
selectivity
Gallant Lab, U.C. Berkeley
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FMRI Data shows Cortex Hypercubes (Voxel Brain Locations)
lighting up all over the Brain when Words are heard
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Enterprise in Space: National Space Society’s STEAM Program is
Building a Human AI Called “Ali”
 Teach and inspire students worldwide about STEAM and space
– Providing hope and a view to the future for the less fortunate
– Enriching the potential of students and teachers already excited
– Encouraging the development of new space-related technologies
 Educator-supported autonomous learning using ValueSpring’s
enterpriseMind™ artificial intelligence called Ali”
 Build, launch and return to Earth a low-flying Orbiter called the NSS
Enterprise, containing 100 student experiments, and with Ali also serving as
the voice of the NSS Enterprise
 Key partners
 NSS/EIS STEAM Initiatives: EIS Learning Academy, Smithsonian SEC Teacher
Programs, Enterprise Centers for Excellence and much more!
 Phased roll-out of Ali-based education program
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Imagine a world where every child has a personal tutor, mentor,
coach and friend . . .
… And her name is Ali
NSS Enterprise Artistic Concept
ENTERPRISE IN SPACE
PROGRAM
Approx. 9 ft long and 1,000 lb gross weight
“Ali” Human AI
 Monitors Student Experiments in Orbit
4. Operation
 Tutors Student on Experiment Design
Up to 30 days in Low Earth
Orbit with 100+ student
experiments
and Experiment Analysis
5. Interaction
3. Deployment
Ali serves as voice of
ship for worldwide
communications
with student teams
1. Education Outreach
(3-4 years before launch)
Separate from launch
vehicle primary payload
Educate and inspire 100,000
students in STEAM topics. Design &
build spacecraft & integrate 100+
best student experiments.
7. Recovery
Descent and
ground landing
for tour & exhibit
2. Launch 2020
Secondary payload
on launch vehicle
6. Reentry
Impulsive deorbit and
controlled reentry
Designing and Building “Ali” Human AI: Integrated Team from NSS/
EIS/ Value Spring
 What’s unique: COMBINED INTELLIGENCE – “ALI” + Student Solve Problems Together
– Ali tutors students 1:1 at each student’s learning pace
– Ali tutors using Socratic dialog to stimulate critical thinking
– Ali tutors interact dynamically, explaining the full richness of knowledge with
examples, automatically changing curricula as needed to improve learning
– Ali collaborates with teachers, identifying learning problems
– Ali continuously assesses student mastery without tests
 Why this is important – “Ali” doesn’t just deliver content: “Ali” is a self-organizing
personality that dynamically tutors students
– One-on-one tutoring is the most effective
EIS Plan
teaching
– Ali can reach all students THROUGH THE
INTERNET CLOUD
– Ali brings global education to ALL Students
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“Ali” Functional Specification: Combined Intelligence -- Ali working
with students: Verbal, Visual and Experiential Styles
2. Main point Ali
is discussing, or
scrolling text
law.
Newton’s second law is F=MA
3. Animated or
video example
of 2nd Law
concept Ali is
mentoring. l.
1. Ali animation
verbally explains
Newton’s 2nd Lawl
1. Ali animation synched with her speech
2. Text for the main point Ali is mentoring
3. Animated or video example of what Ali
is discussing
“Ali” Architecture Starts with enterpriseMind™ AI Architecture for IBM
Big Data and Analytics Products
Watson
Relationship
Extraction
Unstructured
Data
Documents
Web Sites
Structured Data
Big Data
IBM Watson Ecosystem Products
Meaning Engine
Learns
Data Meaning and
Data Structure
enterpriseMind AI
Performs Data
Engineering / Data
Analytics and
Programming
Watson Concept
Expansion
MDM Data Standards
TKL
enterpriseMind
Knowledge
Library
Watson
Text to Speech
Watson Concept
Insights
Data Meaning
Watson Explorer /
Content Analytics
Watson
Engagement
Advisor
Unstructured
Data Store
enterpriseMind AI
Transforms
Meaning to
Structured Data
and NL Text
Hadoop Big Data
IBM Watson Foundation Products
TKL
enterpriseMind
Knowledge
Library
Enterprise
Data
Structured
Database
InfoSphere
Glossary
DB2/RDBMS
Watson Explorer
SPSS Modeler
SPSS Analytics
Server
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InfoSphere
BigInsights
“Ali’s” Architecture for STEAM Education in the Cloud
Ali Natural Language Avatar
Ali Human Dialog
Goal Directed
Socratic Tutoring
Ali Artificial Intelligence
Student’s Questions
Unstructured Data
Documents
Web Sites
Facts
Meaning Engine
Learns
Data Meaning and
Data Structure
Structured Data
and Big Data
enterpriseMind™
Cognitive Knowledge
STEAM
Curriculum
STEAM
Students
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Teacher’s student
assessment monitoring
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Come join us Building EIS’s Artificial
Intelligence Called “Ali”
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Thank you!
William P. Doyle, President and CTO
William.Doyle@thevaluespring.com
Taffy Holliday, Co-Founder and COO
Taffy.Holliday@thevaluespring.com
203 912 6808
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