Deep Stupidity: Probing the limits of AI, Deep Learning and Analytics - Seguridad Mania.com - España y América Latina

On December 2nd 2014, provoked by the impact of `Deep Learning’ and other recent scientific and technical advances in Artificial Intelligence, Professor Stephen Hawking released a terrifying warning about the coming technological singularity and the existential danger of AI: "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate," Professor Hawking said. "Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded". Fashions in AI come and go - and the hype around so called ‘Deep Learning’ networks is not without precedence - so what is it about ‘nouveau AI’ that warrants such alarm? Conversely, in this talk, I will endeavour to situate recent technological landmarks more properly in their historical niche; concluding, by foregrounding the computationally-impregnatable barriers which remain between ‘Deep Minds’ and `Real Minds`.