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(Toby Walsh) I wanna talk 
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, 
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 
being thrown at us.

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Google just spent 
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 
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 
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 
help inform you about

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

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because Hollywood paints 
all these pictures,

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these mostly dystopian pictures of AI.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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and it can answer general knowledge
questions.

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

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there are the cryptic questions
they are answering.

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

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something that was announced
just two days ago:

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

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with an AI program.

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Now, I thought long and hard about
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 
immediately if I put up a page of math

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But I wanted you to see, just to feel

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the depth of questions 
that they are answering.

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So this is from the maths paper, you know,
a non trivial, sort of,

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if you come from the UK, 
A-level-like math question

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that they were able to answer

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Here is a physics question
about Newtonian dynamics

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that they were able to answer.

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Now they got 511 points, out of
a maximum of 950.

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That's more than the average score
of Japanese students

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sitting the entrance exam.

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They would have got into most 
Japanese universities with a score of 511.

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That's what's possible today.

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Their ambition in 10 years' time is to get
into Tokyo, University of Tokyo,

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which is one of the best universities
in the world.

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So, this is why I put up 
a picture of Terminator,

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because whenever I talk to the media
about what we do in AI,

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they put up a picture of Terminator,
right?

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So I don't want you to worry 
about Terminator,

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Terminator is at least 
50 to 100 years away.

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and there are lots of reasons why
we don't have to worry about it,

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about Terminator.

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I'm not going to go and spend
too much time

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on why you don't have to worry about Terminator. ////

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

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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

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seems like it will never disappear great
impact factor

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under threat

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not technically minded that final answer
your question

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jobs