Mixed Reality brings the 3D view while AI brings humanity to our lives with an Intelligence Revolution

At the recent Innovators Club held at RMIT’s new Studio in New Academic Street, Dr Lisa Dethridge opened sharing her the view inspired by Norm Judah of Microsoft that an ethical framework for AI is essential for this historical moment “The Fourth Industrial Revolution.” An Intelligence Revolution that will be fuelled by a new experience layer where a person’s experience with technology will span a multitude of devices and become increasingly more natural and multi-sensory with location, voice, ink and gaze interactions. At this months Innovator’s Gwyllim Jahn, a lecturer in architectural design, and Cameron Newnham, associate lecturer and industry fellow, both in RMIT’s School of Architecture and Design, shared their vision of how the Microsoft HoloLens can revolutionise both architecture and construction.

Cam and Gwyl are the ultimate Multi-Disciplinarians - Architects that can code and together they have developed a solution that provides a 3D view that disrupts architecture and construction, providing a better hands-on experience to students and industry. By allowing the construction to be more digital the design can be more sophisticated, allowing students to imagine a design that is not restricted by 2D drawings and it is amazing what they are creating . I was lucky enough to be part of the Ex Nihilo Studio, seeing students use the HoloLens to construct their designs. For your enjoyment watch the video by Indra Pal as part of the RMIT Bachelor of Architectural Design studio "Ex Nihilo", run by Gwyllim Jahn and Sean Guy.

Ex Nihilo investigates the relationship between mixed reality representation, craftsmanship and the construction of architecture. At the final review representation from the Architecture Community joined to express their excitement and feedback as the inventions propels us into a new realm of Industry 4.0.

With Pia Ednie-Brown, Greg Lynn who used the HoloLens to cost-effectively visualize and navigate a holographic representation of the US Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale from the convenience of his work space in Venice Beach, Roland Snooks, Donald Bates, Francois Roche, Alisa Andrasek, at the Ex Nihilo review.

This month RMIT have taken their studio to Design Modelling Symposium in Paris Humanizing Digital Reality

Coming next to the Microsoft Summit – in November and not too late to Register here:

So mixed reality is creating a digital format for construction and design - next we want to apply machine learning and computer vision so that we can create feedback and quality. It will not replace the operator, rather enhance to provide another level of productivity. It is these insights into the road from incubation to impact of Microsoft Artificial Intelligence that was shared with us by Prashant Tukar, Head of Products and Partner Ecosystem for AI, Bing and Cortana at Microsoft

Organisations across industries are leveraging intelligent agents, Cortana Intelligence Suite, Bot Framework and infusing AI in their business applications to extend and innovate. With over 20,000 people at Microsoft working on AI, many organisations are using Microsoft AI to deliver new levels of intelligence, Nissan has just launched their new car with Cortana.

In China Microsoft has Xiaolce she has 850,000 friends and is a chatbot with a difference. She can remember details from earlier conversations and learns. In Japan there is Rina and the US you can make friends with Zo. Find out more here:

So what about Ethics in all of this RMIT Researcher Dr Lisa Dethridge asks:

1. How can we ensure that AI do not infringe human rights?
2. How can we assure that AI is accountable?
3. How can we ensure that AI is transparent?
4. How can we extend the benefits and minimize the risks of AI being misused?

At DECIDE The Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making established to inspire and develop leaders dedicated to making effective, ethical and legal decisions – They are also considering the Ethical Implications of automation and decision making, In the interview below with Eric Horvitz , he tells us we should apply our talents to that the broader good. With over 30,000 deaths a year in the US in Car Accidents these could be addresses with autonomous systems like automatic braking systems and 400,000 people in hospitals are dying due to errors - this should be were AI is used to provide maximum benefit to humanity -Enjoy the interview below:

Thanks to all who attended the Innovators Club, hosted by RMIT and Microsoft, especially to Daphne Liang, Tina Tran, David Preiss who made it all happen and our visionary host Dr Lisa Dethridge.