The chemical camdessus says fire, fire. [laughter] and sometimes it just doesnt pay. So anyway, today i want to talk about the future of the mind. Ever since i was a child i have been fascinated by two things and first i have been fascinated by outer space and the origin of the universe and that is what i do for a living and i have also been fascinated by what lurks on your shoulders, which is the most complex object in the known universe and if we were to create a computer that can stimulate the brain, the computer will be the size of a city block and energy would require a Nuclear Power plant to fire it up in a river to cool it down. But your brain operate on 20 watts of power. So when someone calls you a dim bulb, that is a compliment. [laughter] and you dont need a Nuclear Power plant to energize your brain, just a hand to her is fine. So how is it possible . Well, my latest book is now number one on the New York Times bestseller list. And so i am not the only one fascinated by the
Machines. So that takes us back to the question of how we get along with them what makes us think and assume that they will be firmly. And it was written by the watson team. It lays out what cognitive computing really is. And machines like watson and has 200 million pages of definitions of common sense and this was a trivial challenge and it was harder than chess decisionmaking, statistical reasoning, hypothesis generation and so for example the question how long can this guy talk about Artificial Intelligence and then you can test the hypothesis. So what is watson doing today and we are beginning to do Legal Research and we will get consulting positions right away and it will be a physicians aid and they want to license it and so how good are these situations. The achievements are big. And so you know that the cognitive functions are competing in the job market. Humans are being replaced by machines i ai and automation my now with automated intelligence print sportswriters, travel age
Hello, i am James Barrett and i would like to thank everyone for inviting me here and i think this is such a great story. We remember when books were only sold in bookstores. So to me a kind of captures the wild mysterious bookstores that i knew when i was a kid. [laughter] that such a rich experience and that is what this one is. And obviously it is such a great Meeting Place for people. So i want to thank people for inviting me today. I have written a book about Artificial Intelligence and my job and ive made a lot of friends that you might have seen on the National Geographic channel on pbs and some are available also on netflix and i became interested in Artificial Intelligence and that is what i am here to talk to you about tonight. Artificial intelligence, what it is, and what i think as far as a lot of researchers and makers think that is being developed in the wrong way. And i really believe this conversation is the most important conversation of our time. And so lets begin wit
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