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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, I'm listening.

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Can you tell me what do you do again?'
(audience laughs)

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And then I realised, how do I summarise
this in 2 words?

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So then I told him, 'Hey, 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?'
So that's how the title came by,

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and obviously we're not building
thinking machines but

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what I'm going talk about is towards
thinking machines, right?

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So, we have a long way to go. So I
added the word 'towards' later.

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So what I'm gonna talk about is all over
the place. I'm going to talk about

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philosophy, science fiction. I'm going to
talk about algorithms and

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I'm going to talk about, you know, deep
learning and how to think about things

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beyond deep learning. Alright?
And let me give you a perspective

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and then we'll start. 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