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[Damo4]

The founding member colt.

Lol pass the keyboard to Robsmark my guy, take a well deserved break

 

[Tothemoon24]

The Seamless, Invisible Technology Future of Ambient Experiences​

A wide variety of digital experiences powered by AI will "just happen" automatically as part of our daily lives.
By Nicholas Cook, Senior Principal Systems Architect and Distinguished Engineer, Architecture and Technology Group, Arm
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Internet of Things (IoT)



When discussing future technology innovation, we often think of new ground-breaking devices and computing experiences that we have yet to imagine. However, one of the next technology revolutions is likely to occur largely undetected, almost invisibly in the background, with devices only coming to the fore when necessary. As a result, a wide variety of seamless digital experiences will just happen automatically as part of our daily lives. This will be fueled by the exponential growth of artificial intelligence (AI) across all technologies.

A world of ambient experiences​

This is known as “ambient computing”, essentially a computing future where our interaction with technology and the devices we use every day in the real-world becomes invisible. The many devices still have a role, but fade effortlessly into the background, not requiring people to consciously interact with them.

Enabling these ambient experiences will bring together services, data and intelligence through the acceleration of pervasive AI-based technologies, particularly in the Internet of Things (IoT) and consumer tech markets that consist of billions of sensors and devices.

For the user, this delivers ambient experiences that are highly responsive and personalized to their needs, preferences and environments without the need to press a touchscreen or button. The AI-based technologies in ambient compute systems will collate and interpret data and then help to implement the technology experiences that are relevant to people and the environments they are in. Essentially these highly personalized ambient experiences cannot be delivered without AI.

Ambient experiences are happening now​

So how does this look in the real-world? Well, the foundations of ambient computing are already in place today.

Smartphones are central to ambient experiences, with today’s AI-powered digital assistants responding to the user’s voice to perform an action when prompted, like “turn on the lights.” However, future smartphone digital assistants will move from being reactive to proactive. They will understand the user’s location and perform a proactive action, like actioning a “welcome home” message when the user walks into their home, and then adapting the environment based on the user’s preferences, like automatically adjusting temperature settings and lighting or even playing the user’s favourite music on the home speaker. All of these actions will be learned from the user rather than being pre-programmed.

The smart home and how it connects with various devices is another area of ambient computing innovation. This means a combination of devices all automatically working together, with one device activating another having learned the best outcome for the end-user. For example, air purifiers that recognize high pollen days and automatically adjust their fan settings, while autonomously activating the robot vacuum to clean the house more.

Wearable devices, like smartwatches and fitness trackers, are other good examples. Currently, they collect data from the user and then provide personalized health and fitness recommendations either through the wearables or on the smartphone. However, through ambient computing these recommendations could be extended into other devices and services that, for example, could offer different meal options based on the health needs of individuals. People’s biometric data from these wearable devices could also be used to inform music and lighting choices in the home.

Outside of the consumer tech space, there are examples of ambient computing applications in urban environments. Smart cities use connected infrastructure, like traffic lights and public transportation, that adapt to real-time conditions and provide relevant information to the public. For example, there are sensors on some of today’s trains that detect whether certain carriages are busy or not, and then communicate this information to passengers. In the future, this could evolve to real-time directional instructions that guide people to the right space for them based on their travelling preferences and context within the train carriage.

Future ambient experiences​

However, these current day examples beg the question – how can ambient experiences be taken even further? From Arm’s perspective, we see significant opportunities to expand these current use cases with more compute and more personalization within different contexts and environments. This means amplifying people’s senses across different environments, more seamless experiences in public spaces, more relevant insights and information tailored to individual people, and more personalized environments that have even greater abilities to adapt to people’s preferences and needs.

Amplifying senses​

The acceleration of ambient experiences means people will be able to use their devices – be that smartphones used today or future augmented reality (AR) wearables or hearables – to see, hear and even touch or smell at levels we have never seen before. Essentially, this will become a “digital sixth sense”. When connected with ambient compute systems, these devices could bring sounds to the fore that are important to the user and the environments they are in. For example, the sound of a car when approaching a blind corner. This use case also has wider positive implications for devices like hearing aids through providing advanced hearing capabilities.

Transforming the car​

In the car, in-vehicle experiences will be entirely personalized to the driver and passengers, from temperature preferences to preferred driving routes, as the automotive industry accelerates to future software-defined vehicles.

Automatic bookings, more relevant and accurate insights​

In buildings, ambient experiences will be automatic, providing more relevant insights for the user and those around them. Future workplaces will automatically book desks or rooms for workers as they walk into the building. Future smart hospitals and care homes will detect physical or physiological movement (such as breathing and heart rates) among patients through using simple sensors in the building, so any healthcare issues are identified early without the need for constant supervision. These ambient buildings could then deliver automated cleaning schedules based on dynamic real-time information showing parts that are occupied or not in use.

In healthcare, ambient intelligence will use advanced, voice-enabled AI to automatically document conversations between physicians, patients and families, rather than relying on paperwork from memory after these encounters. This will save health services time and improve the accuracy of what was agreed with patients.

Personalized environments​

More personalized environments have significant implications for those who experience accessibility or neurodiversity challenges, with ambient computing adapting to different people’s needs to improve their lives. For example, for those with autism, public environments could be altered through lessening the impact of noise and people in crowded spaces.

Making ambient a reality​

While these current and future examples of ambient experiences represent a potentially exciting vision of computing, they all need foundational technologies to make them a reality. This will involve greater compatibility and connectivity, and more advanced computing and security capabilities, like “privacy preserving compute.”

From a device perspective, people will continue to rely on their smartphones as the facitlitors of ambient experiences. The smartphone will aggregate data from the user and different environments to make ambient experiences a reality and also be the trusted custodians of people’s own personal data. However, in the future we anticipate that there will also be a new generation of devices and hubs supporting and facilitating the ongoing evolution of ambient experiences. Let’s explore some of the spaces that will evolve in the meantime.

Compatible sensors “built to last” with more compute​

Sensors are undoubtedly going to be a big part of ambient computing, providing the contextual awareness to gather information on the environments that people find themselves in and then making that environment relevant based on their preferences. This will create the need for greater compatibility between sensors to ensure ambient computing is able to provide the ubiquitous, seamless experiences that it promises. Sensors are already a key part of the consumer IoT market today, but ulimately the data is being aggregated by the smartphone. To realise the vision of future ambient experiences, the next generation of sensors will need more compute power to support various AI workloads for data gathering and learning that are vital for these experiences.

All these sensors will need to be “ambient ready” and built on highly capable hardware platforms to support over-the-air software updates that continuously add new, more advanced features into different ambient compute systems. Sensors powering ambient experiences will also require a step-change in security functionality, providing a reliable, secure hardware foundation capable of managing large amounts of data, but also supporting fluid software deployment so developers can keep adding more features, updates and innovations.

Greater interconnectivity for personalization​

There will need to be even greater interconnectivity across IoT devices and technologies, allowing more communication and information sharing to facilitate these personalized ambient experiences. These highly connected systems will require advanced computing that continuously learns from people over time, making proactive suggestions or performing personalized tasks with no user input.

“Privacy-preserving compute”​

However, due to this collection of valuable personal data to create these highly personalized ambient computing environments for the user, privacy and security will be paramount. As mentioned previously, smartphones are already the trusted custodians of our data with a range of enhanced security technologies already available today, but additional counter-measures will need to be deployed across other devices to appropriately handle sensitive information. This ultimately requires “privacy-preserving compute” beyond just the smartphone to ensure that the avalanche of data needed to facilitate ambient experiences is protected, with secure maintenance and updates to devices also being essential.

The increasing deployment of AI and ML distributed across devices​

As the volume of data increases across ambient compute systems, important and relevant information must be separated out from the rest of the noise. The processing of important, relevant information has to be compatible with privacy, bandwidth and energy efficiency requirements of ambient compute systems, with AI and ML capabilities needing to be placed increasingly closer to the data sources to achieve this. This means more AI and ML compute workloads happening at the edge – on the sensors, wearables, smartphones and other hub devices – for quicker, more secure, more personalized ambient experiences.

A technology “step-change”​

Ambient computing promises a step-change in how we see and use technology in our daily lives. Moving away from a world where we touch and use devices to a world where the devices proactively react to our own preferences and create personalized experiences regardless of the physical environment.

However, with any technology revolution, ambient computing experiences will deliver significant challenges that the industry must solve. It will mean more computing power and AI from the smallest sensor to the biggest cloud, and even greater security as our personal data inform everyone’s own ambient experiences.

Arm’s role in the ambient computing world​

Arm has the largest computational footprint on the planet, with more than 250 billion Arm-based chips shipped to date. As the world’s most pervasive computing platform, Arm has a role across every corner of the ambient computing world, providing the efficiency, performance, AI capabilities, security and scalable portfolio of technology solutions to deliver the seamless, personalized ambient experiences of tomorrow. Whether it’s smart cities and smart homes or sensors and smartphones, the Arm computing platform will be the foundational technology that delivers ambient experiences.

 

[Bravo]

Xoxoxox

Hey Makrame,

I just went back in time to your early history (the primordial stages of TSEx) and I can confirm that your answers, generally speaking, all seem to be in one sentence responses that are usually pretty negative.

That's all!

I just wanted to make you aware that you do that/have done that/continue to do that... incase you were not aware..

Cheers,

 

[Labsy]

Very pleasing to hear PVDM is taking the foot off the pedal and handing over his responsibilities to what seems as of a score for our team! Wow! All whilst keeping his finger on the pulse in the board room. It feels to me like the curtain is being raised for the opening number. Settling into my seat as hush is falling over the theatre...
Here we go......shhhhhhhhhh.... instruments squeak one last practice tone and....tap tap tap... lights......quuuuuaaaaaaalcoooooom.......

 

[Perhaps]

Thanks to Mr. Peter van der Made for giving us the opportunity to be part of his journey to the stars.
After all those years of hard work and responsibility I wish a good time to enjoy life in an easier way.
May health and a long life be with you.

 

[Townyj]

The founding member colt

We welcome you..

 

[Makeme 2020]

Hey Makrame,

I just went back in time to your early history (the primordial stages of TSEx) and I can confirm that your answers, generally speaking, all seem to be in one sentence responses that are usually pretty negative.

That's all!

I just wanted to make you aware that you do that/have done that/continue to do that... incase you were not aware..

Cheers,



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Makrame.
Please explain.
Lol

 

[Makeme 2020]

Hey Makrame,

I just went back in time to your early history (the primordial stages of TSEx) and I can confirm that your answers, generally speaking, all seem to be in one sentence responses that are usually pretty negative.

That's all!

I just wanted to make you aware that you do that/have done that/continue to do that... incase you were not aware..

Cheers,



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To much HOT tub.
Lol

 

[IloveLamp]

Great reading

The Seamless, Invisible Technology Future of Ambient Experiences

A wide variety of ambient experiences powered by AI that will happen automatically as part of people's daily lives.

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[GazDix]

Savvy and strong appointment. He even has a Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Anthony_Lewis

What impresses me is that he also seems to specialise in robotics as well, so hopefully he has some pull in that industry to set up some nice partnerships / IP deals in that area. Not to mention our links with HP before.

Good on Peter for stepping down. Always been there for his company during the tough times as well. I will never forget how he stepped in for LDN as CEO. Humble legend. I imagine he will always be in the background somewhere anyway.

 

[robsmark]

Lol pass the keyboard to Robsmark my guy, take a well deserved break

Why’s that Damo? Do you need someone to post something worth reading?

 

[Xray1]

Will this new CTO Appointment see a BRN s/price rise tomorrow of possibly ~.25 to .28 cents range or even more ??!!..........

Also, this appointment may/would cause some concern for those shorters who would have been taken off guard with this rather unexpected ASX announcement.

 

[FromBeyond]

The very best to you Peter Van Der Made in your retirement. I hope you enjoy all the riches that it brings: social, familial and financial, among others. I have no doubt you will continue to monitor your creation with the same honesty, modesty and even-handed integrity that we all know you for, and will be generous with your advice as our company’s elder statesman, scientific genius and ethical rudder.

You left an indelible impression on me when I met you in 2015 with Rob Mitro and Neil Rinaldi. Your enthusiasm in attempting to explain what to me was an incomprehensible concept was both baffling and endearing. Rob and Neil had to dumb down your words after I admitted I hadn’t the slightest idea what you were on about, yet you never took offence. You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

 

[DingoBorat]

When I got wind of this PVDM stepping down thing, in a post here and an announcement..
I thought whoa! WTF!!

Went straight to the announcement (not sure there would even be one, but there it was..) with quite a large measure of concern, Peter, being such an obviously central and intregal part of BrainChip and the AKIDA technology developments..

Seeing who is stepping in though, quickly allayed any doubts or fears, I may have had..

BrainChip is moving on up, to a whole new level, on a bigger and better playing field, that we will soon be dominating.

Please don't think I'm taking anything away, from the humble genius, who is Peter Van der Made, but this new guy looks the goods and is definitely not an inferior fill in, by any means..

Dr Tony Lewis's credentials and experience, speak for themselves and look to be nothing but a perfect fit, for BrainChip and where we are going.

Not sure what the initial market reaction will be, Peter being such a key part of the Company, but I think it "should" be hugely positive, just on the strength of this new appointment.

Just my opinion and feel, for this huge development in our journey..

 

[Pepsin]

Hello everyone!
I just wanted to summarize yesterdays webinar: "A Spike in Efficiency? - neuromorphic computing and its potential for the automotive industry" from TU Darmstadt (Germany).
Link to webinar
I can´t find it but someone posted it a few days ago in this thread. Thank you!

Summary:
- lecturer was Lea Hofmaier. She works at a research-company called TWT. The company has several well known partners. Slogan is "science and innovation".

- I liked her explanation about basics of neuromorphic computing, bottlenecks of von-Neumann-Architecture. That took about half of the lecture.
- she mentioned Akida and Loihi as examples for neuromorphic chips and went on to the "hey Mercedes" function and stated that there are several other potential use cases in the automotive industry.
- she explained benefits of Akida 2 over Akida 1.
- the following advantages of neuromorphic computing were mentioned by her:
- Advantages: very energy efficient, very low latency, independence from the cloud, on-chip online learning and individual customization
- Challenges: Large scale training still inefficient, current learning algorithms do not yet effective temporal coding.
- conclusion was about efficiency of neuromorphic chips, benefits of using in automotive industry and huge potential of NC and research about NC.

The presentation was quite good and went above my head on some points (I have no background in programming or electrical engineering). She was enthusiastic about the future of SNN and neuromorphic computing and highlighted the benefits several times.

It was a 100% remote and public lecture. There is no recording available.
There were about 20 people in the audience. I looked up some names and some had their company in their name already - there were at least two people from Continental and I guess 3 people from HELLA/FORVIA attending. I didn´´t know HELLA/FORVIA before, but they seem to be a name among automotiv suppliers (36.000 employees). Oh, and I found a R&D Engineer for AI and Neuromorphic Computing from Mercedes in the audience.

I didn´t regret attending and got a very positive feeling.

Greetings from Germany!

 

[Ethinvestor]

Snapdragon

Good post, thanks. According to BRN competitive analysis as at April'23 (at the least) none of its competitors could do it all on chip without making the journey to the cloud.
Interesting - the new Snapdragon chip does not make the journey to the cloud.

So what does this mean? We in on the new snapdragon or there is a competitor out there that can match BRN?

 

[Krustor]

Found him

M Anthony Lewis - BrainChip | LinkedIn

With over 20 years of experience in artificial intelligence, robotics, and neuromorphic… · Experience: BrainChip · Education: University of Southern California · Location: San Diego · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View M Anthony Lewis’ profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion...

www.linkedin.com

10 Patents. This hasnt been discussed yet: These are brought to BRN?

 

[Pom down under]

Maybe we might get a price sensitive announcement following the news about Peter.

 

[Pom down under]

BrainChip Announces Dr. Tony Lewis as the New Chief Technology Officer

21.11.2023 - BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR: BCHPY), the world’s first commercial producer of ultra-low power, fully digital, neuromorphic AI IP, today announced the hiring of M. Anthony (Tony) Lewis as the new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) ...

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BrainChip Announces Dr. Tony Lewis as the New Chief Technology Officer​

Nachrichtenquelle : Business Wire (engl.)
21.11.2023, 19:55 | 33 Leser

BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR: BCHPY), the world’s first commercial producer of ultra-low power, fully digital, neuromorphic AI IP, today announced the hiring of M. Anthony (Tony) Lewis as the new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and the planned retirement of co-founder and CTO Peter Van der Made which is scheduled for the end of the year.
Tony is the former VP and Global Head of the AI and Emerging Compute Lab at HP, Inc., where he played a pivotal role in AI integration into various product lines. Tony also made significant contributions at Qualcomm, Inc., where he led the Zeroth Neuromorphic Engineering Project and contributed to projects in intelligent AI agents and robotics while collaborating closely with Qualcomm Ventures.
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Tony has served as a visiting or adjunct professor at the University of Arizona, the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Waterloo. His entrepreneurial experience is evident in his founding of a government funded R&D company specializing in neuromorphic computing and robotics. Tony has also made his mark as a startup advisor and investor, bringing his technical acumen to various innovative ventures. Tony holds a Ph.D. and master’s in electrical engineering, with a specialization in robotics and neuroscience from the University of Southern California and a BS in Cybernetics from University of California, Los Angeles.
“It has been an amazing journey and a labor of love to bring BrainChip from a concept to a leader in the AI space,” said Peter van Der Made, co-founder of Brainchip. “I am pleased to work closely with Tony on transition and handing over the reins to a well-qualified team for BrainChip’s future growth.”
Peter has been the face of BrainChip since its inception. His intelligence and energy have been foundational in the creation and growth of the company. Peter will continue to serve BrainChip in three ways. He will sit on the Board of Directors; he will be a member of the Scientific Advisory Board and will advise the Company as Technologist Emeritus.
“I would like to welcome Tony to our leadership team and personally thank Peter for his energy, intelligence, and drive that has helped bring BrainChip to where it is today,” Sean Hehir, BrainChip CEO said. “While it is bitter-sweet, I’m also excited that with this seamless transition to Tony and his immense experience, we will further accelerate Akida’s technology pipeline to market.”