(Toby Walsh) I wanna talk about artificial intelligence: it's --
I'm a professor of artificial intelligence
and its a great time, 2015, to be working in AI.
We're making real palpable progress
and there's loads of money being thrown at us.
Google just spent five hundred million dollars --
pounds buying an AI startup called Deep Mind a couple of weeks ago,
today they announced that they were going to spend a billion dollars
setting up an AI lab in Silicon Valley.
IBM is betting about a third of the company
on their cognitive AI computing effort.
So it's really interesting time to be working in AI.
But the first thing I wanted to help inform you about
is what is the state of art, what progress have we made in AI
because Hollywood paints all these pictures,
these mostly dystopian pictures of AI.
Whenever the next science fiction movie comes out, I put my head in my hands
and think Oh my God, what do people think that we're doing?
So, I wanted to start by just giving you a feel for what actually is really capable.
So a couple of years ago, IBM Watson won the game show Jeopardy 1,
the million dollar prize in the game show, Jeopardy P, the reigning human champions.
Now, you might think, well that's just a party trick, isn't it?
It's a -- pour enough of Wikipedia and the internet into a computer,
and it can answer general knowledge questions.
Well, you guys are being a bit unfair to IBM Watson,
there are the cryptic questions they are answering.
But just to give you a real feel for what is technically possible today,
something that was announced just two days ago:
some colleagues of mine at NII in Japan passed the University Entrance Exam
with an AI program.
Now, I thought long and hard about putting up a page of maths.
I thought, well, I'm going to get --
half of the audience is going to leave immediately if I put up a page of math ////
depressing news story very comparison but the chief economist at Bank of
England went on the record saying fifty percent of jobs under threat
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and it's not just technology other ongoing global financial crisis which
seems like it will never disappear great impact factor
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