OEB 2015 - Tomorrow's New World: Extending the Reach of Learning - Toby Walsh

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Toby Walsh - Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales - Australia

How can we ensure that education is ready to prepare learners for the future? And how can we create new learning environments which enhance the benefit of education? Learn about the latest theories, new digital solutions, policies, strategies, research and insights, as our expert speakers shared their enthusiasm for tomorrow’s new world of learning.

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(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

under threat

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your question

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