Shailesh Kumar - Towards “Thinking Machines”

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

and he said yeah I'm listening uh

can you tell me what do you do again

and then I realized

you know.. how do I summarize this in 2 words

so then I told him.. 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

what I'm gonna talk about this towards thinking machines, right

so.. we have a long way to go

so???????

what I'm gonna talk about is

I'm gonna talk about philosophy, science fiction,

I'll talk about algorithms

and I'm gonna talk about.. you know, deep learning and how to think about things beyond deep learning

alright

so let me tell you a perspective and then we'll start

so I'll take questions at the end..

start working this

alright, so

I ended