BENEFICIAL AI 2017 (Asilomar meeting)

AI researcher Yoshua Bengio gives a nice overview of recent progress in Deep Learning, and provides some perspective on challenges that must be overcome to achieve AGI (i.e., human-level general intelligence). I agree with Bengio that the goal is farther than the recent wave of excitement might lead one to believe.

There were many other interesting talks at the BENEFICIAL AI 2017 meeting held in Asilomar CA. (Some may remember the famous Asilomar meeting on recombinant DNA in 1975.)

Here's a panel discussion Creating Human-level AI: How and When?




If you like speculative discussion, this panel on Superintelligence should be of interest: