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Inside The Mind of The Machine <game>
<fun>
<begin>
<if Tech Super Hero Matrix not already open>
Open this URL in a new browser tab: j.mp/mosaic-browser
</if>
</begin>
Which technology superstars can you find in this Matrix?
Somewhere in there you might find a tiny sample of them; maybe you can add more? The Mosaically Matrix is open for Remix and you can Submit your favourite Heroes to be included. But right now, deep inside the mind of the machine are:
Elon Musk
Alan Turing
Demis Hassabis
Ada Lovelace
Steve Wozniak
Alison Hill
Erna Hoover
Grace Hopper
Heddy Lamarr
Laurent Albot
Marissa Mayer
Roberta Williams
Steve Jobs
Susan Kare
Yifan Zhang
Give yourself a time limit and, using the list above, find as many of the Heroes in the Matrix as you can!
<hint>
http://j.mp/EL0N-MU2K
</hint>
<bonus-points>
Can you learn more about these people? What are some of the things you use that they had an influence on? How did they get to be so good at what they do?
</bonus-points>
<mystery1>
Someone else might be here in spirit.. his first name is Andrew and his surname has only two letters. He has a lab where he likes to teaches people to teach machines to learn, they love to spot fluffy creatures.
<clue>
http://j.mp/a-i-c-a-t-s
</clue>
</mystery1>
<mystery2>
The machine is having a BIG dream, who is it dreaming of right now?
<riddle-hint>
The lady in the dream wrote the machine its first love letter. The machine she knew was never made, but still she lives on in memory of coders past.
</riddle-hint>
<cheat-hint>
DON"T READ UNLESS YOU WANT AN EASY WIN!
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|/_ __ _
// \ / \ /__
| o| 0|__ --_
\\____-/ __ \ ___ -
(@@ ___/ / /_
-_____--- --_
// \ \\ -
//|\__/ \\ ___ -
\_\\_____/ \-|
// \\--\|
____// ||_
/___//_\ /__|
She is in the big picture and the small ones!
</hint>
<challenge>
Watch The First 10 Minutes of "How to Create a Mind" on Youtube with Ray Kurzweil
If you can get an adult or a friend to watch it with you that will make it easier to figure out the answers below. Don't worry if you get stuck. Otherwise it will only make you smarter!
<begin>
Go to j.mp/create_a_mind in your browser
</begin>
<are-you-watching>
Who is Ray Kurzweil?
Who is he talking to in the video?
What is on the black t-shirt of the person near the camera in the audience
Who is Johannes Guttenberg?
What did Ray want to be when he was a kid?
Fill in the blank: We very quickly become dependent on these brain e_______s
Rest of the video (OPTIONAL):
What is a "genome"?
How does linear go?
How does exponential go?
What does the fox say?
What is a "vacuum tube"?
Why does Moores law continue?
How much did a transistor cost in 1968?
How many can you get for that price today?
How many times more powerful is Ray's android than his undergraduate computer
What did you learn in the rest of the video?
What questions do you have about this?
</are-you-watching>
</challenge>
</fun>
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