Left Side shows Louis Rosenberg developing Mixed Reality at Air Force Research Laboratory in 1992. Right side is Rosenberg using commercial Mixed Reality 30 years later.
Louis Rosenberg, PhD is an American computer scientist, researcher, inventor and bestselling author in the fields of AI, mixed reality, collective intelligence and haptics. Since 2014, his research focus has been Collective Superintelligence - the use of AI to amplify the intelligence of networked human groups) [ref].
Early in his career, Rosenberg developed mixed reality at Air Force Research Laboratory by creating the Virtual Fixtures platform (1991-94) [ref]. It was the first system to enable users to interact with a unified reality of real and virtual objects. In the field of haptics, he invented the first haptic mouse & haptic GUI for mainstream computing (1993-96) [ref, ref] and the first haptic touchscreen (1998) [ref]. In the field of AI, he developed Artificial Swarm Intelligence (also called Swarm AI) to connect large human groups into superintelligent systems using methods modeled on biological swarms [ref].
Rosenberg is a longtime entrepreneur. He founded the early virtual reality company Immersion Corporation in 1993 and brought it public on NASDAQ in 1999. He left in 2002 and founded Outland Research, early developer of augmented reality technologies acquired by Google in 2011. Outland pioneered a range of AR technologies including spatially registered notes and reminders. And in 2014 Rosenberg founded Unanimous AI which works to amplify human intelligence using biologically inspired networks.
Rosenberg is a vocal advocate of AI regulation and writes often about the risks and protections. In his new book, Our Next Reality (2024) from Hachette, he describes the need to protect society against real-time AI manipulation. His previous books on the impacts of AI include Arrival Mind (2020), Monkey Room (2014) and UPGRADE (2012). He also wrote the short film Privacy Lost (2023) about the danger of AI manipulation.
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Louis Rosenberg discussing the dangers of Superintelligence in 2017 TEDx talk and suggests we pursue Collective Superintelligence as a safer pathway to super-intelligent systems.
Rosenberg on Forbes cover for his work on mixed reality, haptics, and AI, 2019, 8, Japan.
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