YomanAwe
Dec 28, 2016
Undergraduate / Cornell Engineering Essay - for the Artificially Intelligent [5]
@Holt thank's so much for your comment! Let me know if you think this essay speaks to my interests better:
My Amazon Echo is great. It helps my mother find playlists, entertains my father by playing NPR in the morning and plays knock-knock jokes for my baby brother. What if it could do more? We all know the phrase, "two brains are better than one", but I want to make it a reality. What if artificial intelligence isn't merely a digital assistant like Mark Zuckerberg's Jarvis, but instead a truly integrated extension of our minds? I'm deeply curious about the possible confluence between traditional artificial intelligence and our human brain. At Cornell, I hope to prove that a computer can accept and analyze data from our senses.
Computer intelligence and the human mind should interface as one being. What if we didn't have to interact with computers through our senses, but could collaborate with machines and enhance our own capabilities? What if computers could imagine?
The implications of such a project would be enormous. We could calculate complex equations live, immediately understand trends across spreadsheets, and search our environment more efficiently (for example, if you lost your keys on a messy desk). An integrated and truly intelligent system can learn from the same experiences its human can, develop emotion and understand intent. It would revolutionize our productivity and permanently impact humanity.
I'm not just dreaming. My work in machine learning and AI so far has been limited to self-driving cars and basic language processing that I developed at a hackathon in Long Island with the help of Coursera. I'm invested in completing this project, and Cornell University is the perfect place for it. Humans can pick up natural language but computers find it difficult to grasp. Understanding Professor Artzi's work on language manifestation can help solve this roadblock. To create a meaningful connection between the human and a computer a certain level of trust must be achieved. Professor Hoffman's work on human-robot interaction can provide the catalyst for reaching my idea out to the world. I want to work with thinkers who take it upon themselves to create radical research.
Cornell University's computer science program is world-renowned for its depth and applications. Since 2002, Cornell's AI department has won dozens of awards for research papers. My absolute favorite inspiration from Cornell is Professor Bart Selman and Professor Joseph Halpern's work in Decision Theory with Elon Musk. Professor Selman states that "we are in a period in history when we start using these machines to make judgments." Decision theory is a major part of future AI programs and is an integral part of my vision of integrated combined intelligence. Cornell's computer science program undeniably leads the world in artificial intelligence.
Cornell is the world's epitome of intellectual diversity. In addition to engineers, I'll be surrounded by artists, designers, policy makers, entrepreneurs and people of social value. These are the types of people I want to associate myself with - thinkers, innovators, intellectuals. Intellectual diversity is a way for me to understand people's motivations and thought processes. Today's artificial intelligence is biased, and I want to help remove that bias by understanding many different types of people. Cornell's diverse campus is the perfect incubator for my advancement.
Whenever I look at my family's Amazon Echo, all I can see are the possibilities. One day, we will trust a robot to perform brain surgery for us. The only question is when. We're on the brink of creating a productivity revolution like the computer revolution 3 decades ago. Cornell University is spearheading this movement, and I want to be a part of it.
Thanks so much!
@Holt thank's so much for your comment! Let me know if you think this essay speaks to my interests better:
My Amazon Echo is great. It helps my mother find playlists, entertains my father by playing NPR in the morning and plays knock-knock jokes for my baby brother. What if it could do more? We all know the phrase, "two brains are better than one", but I want to make it a reality. What if artificial intelligence isn't merely a digital assistant like Mark Zuckerberg's Jarvis, but instead a truly integrated extension of our minds? I'm deeply curious about the possible confluence between traditional artificial intelligence and our human brain. At Cornell, I hope to prove that a computer can accept and analyze data from our senses.
Computer intelligence and the human mind should interface as one being. What if we didn't have to interact with computers through our senses, but could collaborate with machines and enhance our own capabilities? What if computers could imagine?
The implications of such a project would be enormous. We could calculate complex equations live, immediately understand trends across spreadsheets, and search our environment more efficiently (for example, if you lost your keys on a messy desk). An integrated and truly intelligent system can learn from the same experiences its human can, develop emotion and understand intent. It would revolutionize our productivity and permanently impact humanity.
I'm not just dreaming. My work in machine learning and AI so far has been limited to self-driving cars and basic language processing that I developed at a hackathon in Long Island with the help of Coursera. I'm invested in completing this project, and Cornell University is the perfect place for it. Humans can pick up natural language but computers find it difficult to grasp. Understanding Professor Artzi's work on language manifestation can help solve this roadblock. To create a meaningful connection between the human and a computer a certain level of trust must be achieved. Professor Hoffman's work on human-robot interaction can provide the catalyst for reaching my idea out to the world. I want to work with thinkers who take it upon themselves to create radical research.
Cornell University's computer science program is world-renowned for its depth and applications. Since 2002, Cornell's AI department has won dozens of awards for research papers. My absolute favorite inspiration from Cornell is Professor Bart Selman and Professor Joseph Halpern's work in Decision Theory with Elon Musk. Professor Selman states that "we are in a period in history when we start using these machines to make judgments." Decision theory is a major part of future AI programs and is an integral part of my vision of integrated combined intelligence. Cornell's computer science program undeniably leads the world in artificial intelligence.
Cornell is the world's epitome of intellectual diversity. In addition to engineers, I'll be surrounded by artists, designers, policy makers, entrepreneurs and people of social value. These are the types of people I want to associate myself with - thinkers, innovators, intellectuals. Intellectual diversity is a way for me to understand people's motivations and thought processes. Today's artificial intelligence is biased, and I want to help remove that bias by understanding many different types of people. Cornell's diverse campus is the perfect incubator for my advancement.
Whenever I look at my family's Amazon Echo, all I can see are the possibilities. One day, we will trust a robot to perform brain surgery for us. The only question is when. We're on the brink of creating a productivity revolution like the computer revolution 3 decades ago. Cornell University is spearheading this movement, and I want to be a part of it.
Thanks so much!