WEBVTT 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Ok so good morning everyone. I'll just get started. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 My name is Shailesh and I give these talks almost every year so this is a very 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 deja-vu feeling for me. The only thing different this time is the stage is 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 slightly thinner. But great crowd. Great list of talks so far. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, Daniel called me a couple of weeks ago and said, 'Why don't you give a 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 keynote again?' And I said, 'You know, I'm running out of things to say now.' 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I've given four talks at different forums with The Fifth Elephant and I wasn't so 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 sure what I want to talk about. So, then one of these days I was talking to one of 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 my non-geek friends and he was very excited about what I do, so he said, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 'What do you do?' and I, you know, it was on the phone and I started talking to him 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 about this, that and the other. And for about 45 minutes I was rambling 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and this guy was very quiet. I didn't realise he wasn't a techie and I was 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 going on and on, and after 45 minutes I stopped and said, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 'Are you still there? Are you listening?' And he said, 'Yeah, I'm listening. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Can you tell me what do you do again?' (audience laughs) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And then I realised, how do I summarise this in 2 words? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So then I told him, 'Hey, I'm building thinking machines.' 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And that's when he said, 'Why didn't you say that before. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It was so easy to say that, right?' So that's how the title came by, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and obviously we're not building thinking machines but 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 what I'm going talk about is towards thinking machines, right? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, we have a long way to go. So I added the word 'towards' later. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So what I'm gonna talk about is all over the place. I'm going to talk about 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 philosophy, science fiction. I'm going to talk about algorithms and 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm going to talk about, you know, deep learning and how to think about things 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 beyond deep learning. Alright? And let me give you a perspective 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and then we'll start. So I'll take questions at the end. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Start working this. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Alright, so, I ended my last year's talk on this quotation 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So I thought I'll start on this quotation this time. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So I like this quotation because it puts a lot of things into perspective of 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 what we're doing, how our civilisation got here, and where we're headed. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So it says, "Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And if you look at chairs, and dogs, and animals, and cats 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They don't create machines to extend themselves. They just have instincts 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and they follow their instincts. Right, that's very unique 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 about human civilisation. We've created Taj Mahal, and space flights, and internet 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And so we've come a very long way. So if you think about the tools, right? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The cavemen had tools and now we have a completely robotic assembly line 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 with no humans and you could turn the lights off and nothing will happen. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The car would get ???, right?