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(Toby Walsh) I wanna talk [br]about artificial intelligence: it's --

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I'm a professor of artificial intelligence

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and its a great time, 2015, [br]to be working in AI.

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We're making real palpable progress

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and there's loads of money [br]being thrown at us.

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Google just spent [br]five hundred million dollars --

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pounds buying an AI startup called Deep Mind a couple of weeks ago,

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today they announced that they were [br]going to spend a billion dollars

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setting up an AI lab in Silicon Valley.

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IBM is betting about [br]a third of the company

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on their cognitive AI computing effort.

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So it's really interesting time to be working in AI.

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But the first thing I wanted to [br]help inform you about

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is what is the state of art, [br]what progress have we made in AI

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because Hollywood paints [br]all these pictures,

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these mostly dystopian pictures of AI.

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Whenever the next science fiction movie[br]comes out, I put my head in my hands

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and think Oh my God, what do people think[br]that we're doing?

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So, I wanted to start by just giving you[br]a feel for what actually is really capable.

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So a couple of years ago, IBM Watson[br]won the game show Jeopardy 1,

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the million dollar prize in the game show,[br]Jeopardy P, the reigning human champions.

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Now, you might think, well that's just[br]a party trick, isn't it?

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It's a -- pour enough of Wikipedia [br]and the internet into a computer,

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and it can answer general knowledge[br]questions.

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Well, you guys are being a bit unfair to[br]IBM Watson,

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there are the cryptic questions[br]they are answering.

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But just to give you a real feel for [br]what is technically possible today,

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something that was announced[br]just two days ago:

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some colleagues of mine at NII in Japan[br]passed the University Entrance Exam

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with an AI program.

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Now, I thought long and hard about[br]putting up a page of maths.

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I thought, well, I'm going to get --

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half of the audience is going to leave [br]immediately if I put up a page of math ////

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depressing news story very comparison[br]but the chief economist at Bank of

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England went on the record saying fifty[br]percent of jobs under threat

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47

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and it's not just technology other[br]ongoing global financial crisis which

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seems like it will never disappear great[br]impact factor

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under threat

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not technically minded that final answer[br]your question

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jobs