True Artificial Intelligence will change everything | Juergen Schmidhuber | TEDxLakeComo

When I was a boy, I wanted to
maximize my impact on the world

and I was smart enough to realise
that I am not very smart

and that I have to build a machine that
learns to become much smarter than myself

such that it can solve all the problems
that I cannot solve myself,

and I can retire.

And my first publication on
that dates back 30 years, 1987,

my diploma thesis where I already try
to solve the grand problem of AI,

not only build a machine that learns a
little bit here and a little bit there,

but also learns to improve
the learning algorithm itself.

And the way it learns, the way it
learns, and so on recursively,

without any limits, except
the limits of logics and physics.

And I'm still working
on the same old thing,

and I'm still pretty much
saying the same thing,

except that now, more people
are listening.

Because the learning algorithms that
we have developed on the way to this goal,

they are now on
three thousand million smartphones,

and all of you have them
in your pockets.

What you see here are the five most
valuable companies of the Western world,

Apple, Google, Facebook,
Microsoft, and Amazon,

and all of them are emphasising that AI,
artificial intelligence,

is central to what they are doing
and all of them are using heavily

the deep learning methods that my team
has developed since the early nineties,

in Munich and in Switzerland,

especially something which is called
the long short-term memory.

Has anybody in this room ever heard
of the long short-term memory or the LSTM?

Hands up. Anybody ever heard
of that? OK.

Has anybody never heard of the LSTM?

I see we have a third group in this room,
who didn't understand the question.

The LSTM is a little bit like your brain,

it's an artificial neural network
which also has neurons,

and in your brain you've got about
100 billion neurons,

and each of them is connected to roughly
10,000 other neurons on average,

which means that you have got
a million billion connections.

and each of these
connections has a strength,

which says how much does
this neuron over here,

influence that neuron over there.