This year's Google I/O conference not only allows developers to participate. Rock stars, astronauts and Turing Award winners participated in more than a dozen inspiration and brainstorming sessions. Participants learned how technology will shape the future, from music to art to creativity. Here are some lessons learned from these talks:
The key to creativity is to think like a child.
Oscar-winning animator Glen Keane created beloved characters like Ariel, The Beast and Pocahontas. He told attendees that no matter what your job is, it is important to keep in touch with your inner child. "We all have this six-year-old. It has to do with you and what you are doing today," he said. "Don't forget the part of your adventures when you were young."
If technology is the answer, what is the problem?
This is the argument behind the work of artist and researcher Sougwen Chung, who wrote the robot to collaborate with her to create artwork. She gave a speech with Cedric Kiefer, co-founder and creative leader of art studio Onformative, and Kenric McDowell, co-leader of Google Arts&Culture Artist + Machine Intelligence Project. The trio talked about the relationship between artists and artificial intelligence, and whether artificial intelligence can completely replace artists. "This is the question of how you actually use technology in your art in practice," Cedric said. "You just wrote a little code, and then clicked'art, art, art, more art?' This is not exactly the case."
Be bold and dare to think.
Astronaut Mae Jemison was the first woman of color to enter space. She led the 100-year starship. This project aims to ensure that humans can go to another star in the next century. "When you look at space exploration, its boldness is different," she said. "I don't think Mars will make us work hard enough." She joined the presentation by Harvard astrophysicist Sheperd Doeleman, who helped build the first black hole photo-a bold project itself.
Technology can push you to create new things.
YACHT singer Claire Evans integrated machine learning into the creation of the new album with the help of Google’s Magenta. This is a research project that studies the role of ML in art. She uses Magenta to create new melodies based on YACHT's later catalog. "It pushes us out of our comfort zone forcibly, forcing us to play in different ways and think about how we work in different ways," she said. Joining Google employees Adam Roberts and Jesse Engel of Magenta, and Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips, he discussed how his band uses Magenta for I/O performances.
Artificial intelligence can be used to fight climate change.
Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind, is responsible for integrating its AI system into Google products. He talked about how his team increased the energy value of Google’s wind farms by 20% and reduced the energy consumption of Android phones. "Energy consumption is one of the biggest contributors to climate change," he said. "We thought, as a team, how can we start to focus a lot of effort on this very important issue?"
The space is also full of wonder and mystery.
The famous theoretical physicist Michio Kaku talked with inventor and entrepreneur Taylor Wilson on a wide range of topics, from string theory to the multiverse, and why he was determined to complete all of Einstein's theories. He also evaluated the first recent black hole picture: "A black hole is a cosmic cockroach motel. Everything is checked, not checked. But the question is, where did all these things go?"
Even if you don’t use it, the functionality may be a huge sum of money.
Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google’s senior vice president of platforms and ecosystems, sat down with the writer and podcaster Florence Ion to share insights on the latest Android, Chrome, Chrome OS and Google Play. He also considered one of the latest features of Android Q: Dark Mode. "I would say that I personally am not a huge dark mode person," Hiroshi admitted. "I am an outlier. But I heard your feedback."
Difference is the new normal.
Elise Roy is an inclusive design strategist. After he was deaf at the age of 10, it was difficult to prove that he was "normal." Finally, she realized that a small design change would make a huge change in her life. She said that something as small as a bright red hearing aid "created this huge transformation in my life." "This allows me to celebrate my differences and allow others to join." Two Google employees, Michael Brenner and Irene Alvarado, also took the stage to discuss another inclusive project: Euphonia, which aims to help computers understand different speech patterns.
The smartest artificial intelligence is inspired by the way the human brain works.
Google researcher and Turing Award winner Geoffrey Hinton talked with Nicholas Thompson, editor-in-chief of Wired, to understand why when other artificial intelligence communities started to abandon the concept in the 90s , He continues to study neural networks: you have two choices. You can program, or you can learn. This must be the correct method. "Although he said, "We are neural networks-we can do anything they can do," he emphasized that he is not to rebuild the brain, but "look at the brain and say", this thing works. If we want to make Other useful things, let’s take a look at its inspiration."
Engineers need constant innovation.
Moonshots captain Astro Teller talked about the concept of lasting innovation and the ethics and diversity of opinions. "The real question is whether the long-term society is satisfied with what you have invested in society." Astro emphasized that lasting innovation makes itself responsible for the community in which it operates and the society as a whole.
Extended reading: The Google I/O conference is over, but this little detail has been ignored by everyone!
At the Google I/O conference in May of this year, in addition to introducing Coral's performance and its hardware development products, Google also demonstrated a mobile app developed by a domestic team based on Coral hardware (Coral Dev Board) at the conference—— Model Play. It is reported that Model Play is an AI model sharing market for global AI developers.
Model Play (model.gravitylink.com) not only provides a platform for global developers to display and communicate with AI models, but also can be used with Coral Dev Board with Edge TPU to accelerate ML inference and preview the effect of model operation in real time on mobile phones.
