University of California Television (UCTV)
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv) With the vast amount of data available in digital form, the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is evolving rapidly. In this talk, William Wang (UCSB Computer Science) summarizes the stunning achievements of Artificial Intelligence for the past decade, especially in the subareas of Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision. He also looks at big resarch challenges ahead. Recorded on 06/27/2018. Series: “GRIT Talks” [10/2018] [Show ID: 34034]
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Artificial Intelligence: What’s Next?
We are, I think, sneaking up on AGI, piece by piece. The human brain is not an amorphous blob of organic computing – actually, it's quite a number of small regions that handle specific tasks. FMRI and brain trauma studies show surprising specificity – one part of the brain recognizes faces, another sorts speech from other sounds and still another may handle written text.
In short – build enough "better-than-human" pieces – as they are integrated, the only question becomes that of not whether, but when we have comprehensive super-human intelligent agents – And when may be a good bit sooner than even AI researchers, many of whom have a little bit of tunnel-vision, anticipate.
Seems like dead dreams for a dead world.
Perhaps I'm very lucky to be born in such time when I can consciously watch as the world changes sooo much