When creative machines overtake man: Jürgen Schmidhuber at TEDxLausanne

Artificial intelligence expert Jürgen Schmidhuber isn't able to predict the future accurately, but he explains how machines are getting creative, why 40'000 years of Homo sapiens-dominated history are about to end soon, and how we can try to make the best of what lies ahead.

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[minchyist]

I was there, at this speech. He was brilliant !

[timtim]

He started this research around 1990 (check out his publications), but only in recent years it's getting all this attention. His team is now winning one AI competition after another. The work on optimal universal AI and creative machines and artificial scientist-artists might change the world as we know it.

[Dsuranix]

man i remember seeing this way back and not exactly taking him as seriously as i am now

[Phildvll]

It's not like he has a unique grasp on Machine Learning. He might be one of the current leaders of the field but he, as the adage goes, stands on the shoulder of giants and he's not alone.

[globalman]

A brilliant mind with a wonderful sense of humour.... how rare, how wonderful. I could listen to him all day. Thank you for the post.

[arkdark]

This beautifully executed video is in YouTube since 2012.
I’m shocked to see only 40 thousand people watched it.
Where is everybody?

[otonanoC]

I am reminded of Alan Turing, who imagined a computer on paper, and wrote proofs about its behavior, long before one was physically built. The same is happening here. There is no telling what the people of the future may do with Schmidhuber's groundwork.

[Kyaru]

I have not heard of a computer that has wrote its own code before.
But i theorize such a thing would be possible if you leave things to naturally connect through chemistry, such as bio-mechanics.
The brain reacts through stimuli, much like the laws of physics.
When one thing hits another object, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
The brain works the way it does for a reason. And people are trying to mimic it through technology.

[unusedName]

the Gnostic modernity, always lamenting the disaster of the last revolution, but going mindlessly for the next, with confidence that it will be the good one

[satioOeinas]

Jurgen, both a genius and a tremendous public speaker!

[Cescante]

People need to know this guy. My f'ing hero.

[fardrum]

"my colleagues say that should be easy", that was an awesome joke, I wonder why nobody laughed...

[ArnoldvanKampen]

As long as you can burden a machine with any job within given hard wired parameters I would say it may spew creative or funny results but as soon as it truly reaches consciousness and self awareness it should raise the WHY question. After all intelligence is only a tool used to preserve life as it struggles for and competes for resources. So how will it answer the WHY question. How will it justify its own existence? What or whom will it be competing with to further the development of intelligence, predictive capacity, planning and strategic capabilities? Who will be its adversary to push it forward?

Dr. Chandra, will I dream?

[Vanemiera]

I like the last point of the speech, of us being a stepping stone to complexity. Though, what will happen to the stepping stone if the machines take over? =)

[silentmetta]

As opposed to people writing well researched and well reasoned critiques on youtube, who are the real geniuses, amiright?

[gasparandrei]

Thanks!!! I feel so warm and fuzzy now

[johncdaw]

nice touch on using same pattern on talks as you explain pattern recognition ;)

[deehoo]

hehehe..."none of this would be necessary". Bright man, seems very humble.

[GabrielHasbun]

#Superintelligence #Politics  
More than singularity and the implications of machine dominance I am worried about the people that before superintelligence will lead robots to who knows what imperialistic purpose because of their vicious, vehement, traditional and hegemonic minds.

[Phildvll]

You can program the right system and set up the right initial conditions though.