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And How the Bluemix Hackathon will Empower YOU Dr. Christian Eggenberger-Wang, TSS Business Unit Technical Lead in DACH Petra Kopp, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Global GTS Hybrid Cloud Architecture with support of Dr. Jim Spohrer, Director Understanding Cognitive Systems, IBM CHQ IP Bluemix Hackathon Pilot "Improving students life", Ehningen, Empowering Makers in the Cognitive Era

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Page 1: Empowering makers in the cognitive era

And How the Bluemix Hackathon will Empower YOU

Dr. Christian Eggenberger-Wang, TSS Business Unit Technical Lead in DACHPetra Kopp, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Global GTS Hybrid Cloud Architecturewith support of Dr. Jim Spohrer, Director Understanding Cognitive Systems, IBM CHQ IP

Bluemix Hackathon Pilot "Improving students life", Ehningen, 06.12.2016 – 09.12.2016

Empowering Makers in the Cognitive Era

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A few decades ago, we had simple building blocks and needed much more effort to build simple things, …

Lego Classic Blocks Basic Program drew a Circle on aCommodore VC64 monitor

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… than today

Lego Mindstorm solvingRubic’s Cube in seconds:ibm.biz/BdsqZk

Worldwide Control over your Home with IBM Bluemix & a Raspberry Pi2: ibm.biz/BdsqZL

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The Knowledge & Making developed gradually and literally culminated in the last couple centuries

Societal Knowledge

Personabyte

Societal Knowledge

Personabyte

Societal Knowledge

PersonabyteOrganizationPeoplebyte

Societal Knowledge

PersonabyteOrganizationCrowdbyte

400,000 years ago ~7 century A.D. ~18 century A.D. ~20 century A.D.

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Today, even a pencil or a toaster is too complex to be made by one single person

A simple toaster built of 400 pieces

ibm.biz/BdsqL6

IdeasHow I built a toaster –From scratchThomas Thwaites

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Now, we reach the next stage where the ingeniosity of human beings seem to commoditized by smart machines

20252055

“Wim” Klein, human calculator @ CERN

A group of women called “Computers”

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Lets visualize, in what a short space of time one computer have the same power as one human brain.

* 1 fl oz (US) = ~29.5 cm3 => ~3.1cm * ~3.1cm * ~3.1cm

Lake Michigan’s volume (in fluid ounces (US)*) is about the same as our brain’s capacity (in calculations per second). Computing power doubles every 18 months. At that rate, you see very little progress for a long time – and suddenly you are finished.

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It was a foretaste of what is to come when IBM Deep Blue won the Chess Tournament against Garry Kasparov in 1997

Chess becomes a commodity – Checkmate! For Good ?

Dutch grandmaster Jan Hein Donner summed up the current attitude of human chess masters. When askedhow he would prepare for a match against a computer, he replied, “I would bring a hammer.”

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Though we made huge progress, we still use cognitive shovels which will ultimately turn into bulldozers. They will upside down industries with completely new kind of services

IBM’s Watson cluster supercomputer beat the human champions on the US television quiz show Jeopardy

1956 – Dartmouth Conference1956 – 1981 Micro-Worlds1981 – Japanese 5th Generation1988 – Expert Systems Peak1990 – AI Winter1997 – Deep Blue1997 – 2011 Real-World2011 – Jeopardy! & SIRI2013 – Cognitive Systems Institute2014 – Watson Business Unit & True North Brain Chip2015 – “Cognition as a Service” on IBM Bluemix

Brief History of AI

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Turing’s and von Neumann’s dream of universal machines and constructors seems to see light at the end of the tunnel

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Hmmh, scary – What will be our contribution in the future ?

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Luckily, for us, there is a silver lining on the horizon in form of new ways we collaborate among us and computersThe invention of ‘freestyle’ chess tournaments shows how this is possible. In these events, teams can include any combination of human and digital players.

Average Specialist + Machine + Better Process beatsExpert + Machine + Inferior Process, and beatsSupercomputer alone

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Than, there are still areas where humans have a comparative advantage over machines, as “Thinking Outside of the Box”

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We can assume that many Chess Masters did not have a distinct T-Shaped Profile

Boundary Crossing CompetenciesTeamwork, communication, perspective, networks, critical thinking, global

understanding, project management, etc..

Deep in at least one disciplineAnalytic

thinking & problem solving

Deep in at least one systemAnalytic

thinking & problem solving

ME

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Who knows, it might be a raised block with one or only a few deep, vertical bars

Boundary Crossing Competencies

Teamwork, critical thinking

Deep in at least one disciplineAnalytic

thinking & problem solving

Deep in at least one systemAnalytic

thinking & problem solving

ME

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In ‘Freestyle’ Chess Tournaments, the players need broader skills, but less depth

Boundary Crossing CompetenciesTeamwork, communication, critical thinking, project management, etc.

Deep in at least one disciplineAnalytic

thinking & problem solving

Deep in at least one systemChess

Comp. 1

ME

Deep in at least one disciplineProcess develop-

ment

Deep in at least one systemChess

Comp. 2

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WEF illustrates in its study “The Future of Jobs”, how crucial a T-Shaped profile is to prevail in the job market

Top Ten Skills based on the WEF Framework

World Economic Forum (WEF)

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YOU, as Peoplebyte, will explore T-Shaped skills by teaming and using “Cognition as a Service” on IBM Bluemix. The Results and Insights will be more than the sum of its parts.

Peoplebyte Cognition as a Service

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