Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber has been called the father of modern Artificial Intelligence. His lab's deep learning methods have revolutionized machine learning and are now available on 3 billion smartphones, and used billions of times per day, e.g. for Facebook's automatic translation, Google's speech recognition, Apple's Siri & QuickType, Amazon's Alexa, etc. In his talk, he explains why we are witnessing a moment in history whose importance can only be compared to the emergence of known life in the universe, some 3.5 billion years ago.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

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