Dr. Jeffrey Gladden describes how a sudden mental image became the blueprint for an AI system designed to optimize human performance. He used visual thinking to organize patterns and behaviors, turning abstract ideas into concrete architecture that could enhance human capabilities.
There are many times that I'm coming up with new ideas, and some of the ideas initially can be somewhat abstract. Like, I have an aspiration to actually articulate something or understand something. I'm doing this right now with an AI company that I'm working with, creating an AI mechanism for human optimization. And so I had all of a sudden an image came to me of what that could look like. And then from the image, I started to build on the image and from the image, and then I started to to have the image be a container for certain things that are happening in a repetitive fashion and things like that. And all of a sudden it was kind of like building the machine, the architecture of an AI that could optimize a human being. But it came to me all visually.
