Informal Video Into to Machine Learning

About the video

The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn.

Presenter: Jeremy Howard, an Australian data scientist.

When: November 2014

Duration: 19 min

Introduction

Arthur Samuel. In 1956, he wanted to get this computer to be able to beat him at checkers.

 

Introduction

By 1962, this computer had beaten the Connecticut state champion.

 

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Commercial applications of ML

Introduction

"The ancient 'Lion of Nimrud' went missing from this city's national museum in 2003 (along with a lot of other stuff)"

The video

Discussion

"now's the time to start thinking about how we're going to adjust our social structures and economic structures to be aware of this new reality" by Jeremy Howard

and beyond that?

Discussion

"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. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded." by Stephen Hawking

Discussion

"In all those stories where there’s a guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it’s like yeah he’s sure he can control the demon. Didn’t work out. I’m increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish." by Elon Musk is CEO of Tesla, Solar City and SpaceX

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