Juergen Schmidhuber: True Artificial Intelligence will Change Everything

Very last minute but we are very fortunate to have Juergen Schmidhuber in town and give a talk at the meetup.

Doors open at 6:30pm, talk starts at 7pm

RSVPs open at 4pm.

True Artificial Intelligence will Change Everything - Juergen Schmidhuber

Our deep learning artificial neural networks have won numerous contests in pattern recognition and machine learning. They are now widely used by the world’s most valuable public companies. I will discuss latest state-of-the-art results in numerous applications, and outline how AI will transform every aspect of our civilisation.

Bio:

Since age 15 or so, the main goal of professor Jürgen Schmidhuber (http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen) (pronounce: You_again Shmidhoobuh) has been to build a self-improving (http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/optimalscientist.html) Artificial Intelligence (http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/ai.html) (AI) smarter than himself, then retire. He has pioneered self-improving general problem solvers (http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/metalearner.html) since 1987, and Deep Learning Neural Networks (NNs) (http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deeplearning.html) since 1991 (http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/firstdeeplearner.html). The recurrent NNs (http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/rnn.html) developed by his research groups at the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA (USI & SUPSI) & TU Munich were the first to win official international contests. They have revolutionized handwriting recognition (http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/handwriting.html), speech recognition, machine translation, image captioning, and are now available to over a billion users through Google, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Baidu, and many other companies. DeepMind is heavily influenced by his lab's former students (including 2 of DeepMind's first 4 members and their first PhDs in AI, one of them co-founder, one of them first employee). His team's Deep Learners (http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-learning-overview.html) were the first to win object detection (http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deeplearningwinsMICCAIgrandchallenge.html) and image segmentation contests (http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deeplearningwinsbraincontest.html), and achieved the world's firstsuperhuman visual classification (http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/superhumanpatternrecognition.html) results, winning nine international competitions (http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deeplearning.html) in machine learning & pattern recognition (more than any other team). They also were the first to learn control policies