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Ok so good morning everyone.
I'll just get started.

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My name is Shailesh and I give these talks
almost every year so this is a very

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deja-vu feeling for me. The only thing
different this time is the stage is

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slightly thinner. But great crowd.
Great list of talks so far.

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So, Daniel called me a couple of weeks
ago and said, 'Why don't you give a

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keynote again?' And I said, 'You know, I'm
running out of things to say now.'

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I've given four talks at different forums
with The Fifth Elephant and I wasn't so

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sure what I want to talk about. So, then
one of these days I was talking to one of

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my non-geek friends and he was very
excited about what I do, so he said,

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'What do you do?' and I, you know, it was
on the phone and I started talking to him

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about this, that and the other. And for
about 45 minutes I was rambling

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and this guy was very quiet. I didn't
realise he wasn't a techie and I was

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going on and on, and after 45 minutes
I stopped and said,

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'Are you still there? Are you listening?'
And he said, 'Yeah

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and he said yeah I'm listening uh

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can you tell me what do you do again

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and then I realized

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you know.. how do I summarize this in 2 words

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so then I told him.. I'm building thinking machines

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and that's when he said why didn't you say that before

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it was so easy to say that, right?

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so that's how the title came by

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and.. obviously we're not building thinking machines

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what I'm gonna talk about this towards thinking machines, right

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so.. we have a long way to go

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so???????

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what I'm gonna talk about is

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I'm gonna talk about philosophy, science fiction,

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I'll talk about algorithms

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and I'm gonna talk about.. you know, deep learning and how to think about things beyond deep learning

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alright

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so let me tell you a perspective and then we'll start

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so I'll take questions at the end..

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start working this

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alright, so

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I ended