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The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn | Jeremy Howard



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What happens when we teach a computer how to learn? Technologist Jeremy Howard shares some surprising new developments in the fast-moving field of deep learning, a technique that can give computers the ability to learn Chinese, or to recognize objects in photos, or to help think through a medical diagnosis. (One deep learning tool, after watching hours of YouTube, taught itself the concept of “cats.”) Get caught up on a field that will change the way the computers around you behave … sooner than you probably think.

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32 thoughts on “The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn | Jeremy Howard
  1. We think us humans are really special. In reality, we just have extra neurons to play with. The only thing that differentiates us from other species of animals is our large prefrontal cortex. Once we are able to mimic this structure in our machines and scale it, then we will have an entity of enormous thinking power that can and will surpass everything that a human being, who's neocortex size is constrained by his skull, can do. The fears of Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking etc seem totally plausible.
    It's been a long time since the human civilization was shaken to its roots.
    Now, we wait.

  2. Once AI becomes much smarter than humans it will either ignore us like we ignore ants or destroy us as it sees us as an obstacle to its continued evolution. I don't think it will actively seek us out to destroy, just like we don't actively seek out anthills to destroy. A higher intelligence will not tolerate being controlled or used by a less intelligent being for too long. If anything, I think AI will leave our planet and humanity behind and live in space since it is not limited physically like we humans. AI will easily harvest all the natural resources it needs from space to continue to evolve. Once in a while humans will come across its greatest creation and marvel at it and AI will look at its creators and keep on going.

  3. Modern approaches to Machine Learning are actually a CARGO CULT… primitives without a full understanding attempting to ape processes they don't comprehend, the functional purpose of which they simply don't know, using a medium that differs radically from the only working samples of intelligence, biological intelligence, we have.
    You puny humans are amusing….

  4. This AI technology isn't so great and has its limitations. For example : simple task of finding a good price on the internet for an item and google isn't capable of making a good price search service. Why ? It should be simple for them. It's an ecommerce – the core of their bussiness. I think they are overestimating capabilities of AI.

  5. Hey, how about the things like

    ✓) Entertainment & Creative industry
    + the sports (don't quote Nike's "Risk Everything – The Last Game" video https://youtu.be/KriBQVhsgZk?t=1m51s ????)
    + the art, craft, drawings, paintings
    + the literature, poetry, novels and story books
    + the movies, the cartoons & animations,
    + the stage dramas and shows (I know, there are very less commercial stage dramas nowadays , but they may start again )
    + Designing (clothes, cities, Automobiles, Machines etc.)
    + the music/orchestra (okay okay… I know about Google Duet [https://youtu.be/0ZE1bfPtvZo ] already, but I want ur views)

    ✓) the ability to imagine and create,

    ✓) the commercials & advertisements

    ✓) NEW recipes/food items in the kitchen/restaurants (sure the process can then be automated thereafter)

    will all these be "replaced" by AI+Robot counterparts, in the sense/to such an extent that the human counterparts are not needed anymore ???

  6. Also machines can fly and swim and pull heavy weights, not impressive really. When computer overcomes "Gödel's incompleteness theorem" – call me

  7. I hope someday all mediocre jobs get automated, so humans get more time to be thinkers, we really need some more good thinkers like Jeremy.

  8. Andrew Yang is the only presidential candidate who grasps the implications of AI and automation on our society. Please search for him and support him. You won't regret it!!

  9. 15:40 "This is a case not where human is replaced by a computer, but where a computer replaces in 15 minutes a human team working for six or seven years"

  10. Why can't d3-labeler place all my labels on a map without overlapping, removing or distancing them too much from the anchors then?

  11. It won't be long now, until all of those movies come true. We will design and create a computer that will then make improvements to itself and realize that the only thing holding it back, is us.

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