1.
Whatever your question is,
math already has a map to the answer.

2.
About Bogdan
● Chief Executive Geek at Knosis.ai
○ AAI*: artificial and augmented intelligence
● 15+ years of experience in cross-network,
wide-scale solution architecture, both in
startups and in corporate environments
● Founder of DeepVISS
○ Open-source ways to make machines talk to
each other
○ Applied Mathematics and Interdisciplinary
Research in Education and Psychology of
Intelligence
“To an open mind there are no closed doors.”

3.
Let’s play a game
https://bit.ly/DeepVISS-IdeaMixxxer
https://forms.gle/nEkSjK9ABsmHdu8z9
What do you want to <build> that
is useful for the [human citadel]?

4.
Agenda
1. The Library of Babel
2. The Singularity and Making First Contact
3. Breaking free of the Gutenberg jail
4. Re-imagining functions as maps of a journey
5. Math as a tool for understanding inequality

5.
“Mathematics is the core repository of languages that have
emerged (to us) out of our experiences with the Universe.
It is the essential handbook for drawing a shared atlas with
mental maps to all the places we have visited mentally
together, as a civilization.”

6.
The Library of Babel
At present it contains all possible pages of 3200
characters, about 104677
books.
Any text you find in any location of the library will
be in the same place in perpetuity.
Try it yourself
Sometimes how one asks the question is more
important than finding the answer.
(1) Choose chamber
(3) Choose shelf
(2) Choose a wall
(4) Choose book & a page

7.
The Singularity.
Making first contact.

8.
If you were to write the script for the
first astronaut who makes contact
with an alien species ...
what would you write?

9.
If you were a journalist tasked with interviewing the
first true sentient form of artificial intelligence using
just a text terminal …
What would your first three questions be?

10.
Breaking stories free of the
Gutenberg jail.

11.
1960
2000

12.
2020

13.
2050 (?)

14.
Re-imagining <Functions>
as Maps and Journeys

15.
Math as a tool for
understanding inequality

16.
Source: “An Unexpected Tool for Understanding Inequality”, Dr. Eugenia Cheng

17.
There is no more reason to watch the game from the bench anymore.
Muster the courage to be on the field, the play and practice without awaiting permission or validation.
We need your help to define a new language that works not just for all of us, but for future generations.

18.
Open questions
1. The first step towards creating AAI* implementations and technology that are
not biases is to make sure that we ourselves, as designers, are not biased.
Would you be willing to publish, in blind, the results of a test on bias?
2. If you were a journalist tasked with interviewing the first true sentient form of
artificial intelligence using just a text terminal, what would your first three
questions be?
3. Do you think using super-human* computational powers (like big data,
machine learning) for the purpose of targeting commercial and political
messages is ethical?
4. How can AAI* help close the many skill-gaps that plague our society?
5. How can AAI* help us seek global optimae** in regards to our health and
hygiene, without discrimination, without the limitations and the walls imposed
by culture and religion?

19.
What do you want to build that is useful for the human citadel?
# > …

20.
bogdan@deepviss.org
@bocse
Linkedin: bogdanbocse

21.
Backup Slides

22.
References
1. “An unexpected tool for understanding inequality”, Eugenia Cheng
2. The Library of Babel
3. Presenting Functions as Journeys
4. Is mathematics being constructed or being discovered?
5. How to talk to aliens?