Prof. Martin Maier Title: The Internet of No Things: From “Connected Things” to “Connected Human Intelligence” Abstract: The emerging Tactile Internet, which is widely viewed as the next leap in the evolution of today’s Internet of Things (IoT), envisions the real-time transmission of multisensory haptic information (i.e., touch and actuation) to add a new dimension to the human-to-machine interaction via the Internet. Importantly, the Tactile Internet involves the inherent human-in-
the-loop (HITL) nature of human-to-machine interaction, as opposed to the IoT without any human involvement in its underlying machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. While M2M communication is useful for the automation of industrial and other machine-centric processes, the Tactile Internet allows for a more human-centric design approach towards
extending the capabilities of the human through the Internet, i.e., augmentation rather than automation of the human. This keynote aims at shedding light on the so-called Internet of No Things, which offers all kinds of human-intended services that appear from the surrounding environment when needed and disappear when not needed, while paying particular attention to the importance of crowdsourcing of human skills to solve problems that machines (e.g., AI software agents and robots) alone cannot solve well.
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