I listened closely to the youtube snippet. Here is the transcript:
[moderator] so, tell us who you are and why
[alan] My name is alan cima. i just believe it’ll be solved. I put together the things we are seeing, in terms of analysis of facial expressions, and all of those things, so it’s not purely the logical problem but it’s also a human and logical problem. I think it’ll be solved in less than 10 years.
[moderator] Spoken like a true poker player.
Obviously he didn’t spell his name, but he had white hair and I could tell his general age. Based on that, plus a bit of googling (various spellings of “seema” plus ACM), this linkedin profile came up, which I think is probably him with 95% certainty: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alancima/
Do we know who that one member of the audience was?
I listened closely to the youtube snippet. Here is the transcript:
[moderator] so, tell us who you are and why
[alan] My name is alan cima. i just believe it’ll be solved. I put together the things we are seeing, in terms of analysis of facial expressions, and all of those things, so it’s not purely the logical problem but it’s also a human and logical problem. I think it’ll be solved in less than 10 years.
[moderator] Spoken like a true poker player.
Obviously he didn’t spell his name, but he had white hair and I could tell his general age. Based on that, plus a bit of googling (various spellings of “seema” plus ACM), this linkedin profile came up, which I think is probably him with 95% certainty: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alancima/
That guy was pretty spot on!