His goal is to augment people's limbs with what he calls a "mobility platform", akin to a pair of magic trousers, that allows people to move quickly with minimal effort like riding a bicycle, but without the bicycle.
When I asked Mr. Brown if robots would eventually take on a broader role in the work force and possibly replace workers, he said, "It is much more likely, for now, that robots will help augment people's abilities, allowing us to use robots for things humans can't do".
In all of these situations, AI which augments people, rather than replaces, is most effective.
Pichai suggested embedded cloud processing will be the driver for more people to adopt wearables — by allowing server-side clout to usefully augment people's lives, and do so in a way that increasingly fades into the background (thanks to whatever sleight of hand the likes of Magic Leap has up its sleeve).
The ultimate dream, he adds, is augmenting healthy people with implanted computers.
In other words, the internet augments people's commitment to an offline practice of faith, rather than being itself a place to "do God".
A drag parade on Friday from Tompkins Square Park in the East Village to Stonewall in the West Village also went on as planned — the ranks of the marchers augmented by people who gathered to be part of history.
Now imagine such lists augmented by people who have accidentally, implicitly shown that they are vulnerable — eg with Facebook posts that algorithms interpret, in the context of all the posters' other information, as evidence of secrets that users don't want to reveal.
Moreover, long latency somatosensory potentials associated with the illusion are augmented in people with schizophrenia (8).
