Ok so good morning everyone. I'll just get started.
My name is Shailesh and I give these talks almost every year so this is a very
deja-vu feeling for me. The only thing different this time is the stage is
slightly thinner. But great crowd. Great list of talks so far.
So, Daniel called me a couple of weeks ago and said, 'Why don't you give a
keynote again?' And I said, 'You know, I'm running out of things to say now.'
I've given four talks at different forums with The Fifth Elephant and I wasn't so
sure what I want to talk about. So, then one of these days I was talking to one of
my non-geek friends and he was very excited about what I do, so he said,
'What do you do?' and I, you know, it was on the phone and I started talking to him
about this, that and the other. And for about 45 minutes I was rambling
and this guy was very quiet. I didn't realise he wasn't a techie and I was
going on and on, and after 45 minutes I stopped and said,
'Are you still there? Are you listening?' And he said, 'Yeah, I'm listening.
Can you tell me what do you do again?' (audience laughs)
And then I realised, how do I summarise this in 2 words?
So then I told him, 'Hey, I'm building thinking machines.'
And that's when he said, 'Why didn't you say that before.
It was so easy to say that, right?' So that's how the title came by,
and obviously we're not building thinking machines but
what I'm going talk about is towards thinking machines, right?
So, we have a long way to go. So I added the word 'towards' later.
So what I'm gonna talk about is all over the place. I'm going to talk about
philosophy, science fiction. I'm going to talk about algorithms and
I'm going to talk about, you know, deep learning and how to think about things
beyond deep learning. Alright? And let me give you a perspective
and then we'll start. So I'll take questions at the end.
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