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