"welcome to MIT course 6 s 0 9 9 artificial general intelligence today we have Ray Kurzweil he is one of the world's leading inventors thinkers and futurists with a 30-year track record of accurate pre..."

"the first point to speech reading machines for the blind the first text-to-speech synthesizer the first music synthesizer capable of creating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments and the f..."

"undergraduate in 1965 within a year of my being here they started a new major called computer science it did not get its own course number that's 6 1 even biotechnology recently got its own course num..."

"bifurcated into two warring camps the symbolic school which Minsk II was associated with and the connectionist school was not widely known in fact I think it's still not widely known that Minsk II act..."

"turns out to be remarkably prescient I mean he never tried multi-layer neural nets and all the excitement we see now about deep learning comes from a combination of two things both many layer neural N..."

"straightforward mathematical transformation with that insight we could now go 200 layer neural nets and that's behind sort of all the fantastic gains that we've seen recently alphago trained on every ..."

"the case of go by basically generating an infinite amount of data by having the system play itself had a chat with Denver's house office you know what kind of situations can you do that with you have ..."

"the common wisdom at the time and there's still a lot of neuroscience that says say this that we have all these different regions of the brain they do different things they must be different there's v..."

"with Marvin Minsky actually came for two reasons one the Minsky became my mentor which was a mentorship that lasted for over 50 years the fact that MIT was so advanced it actually had a computer which..."

"it can learn local features so it's very good for speech recognition and the speech recognition network I did in the 80s used these Markov models that became the standard approach because it can deal ..."

"small they were rodents but they were capable a new type of thinking other non-mammalian animals had fixed behaviors but those fixed behaviors were very well adapted for their ecological niche but the..."

"sudden violent change to the environment we now call it the Cretaceous extinction event there's been debate as to whether it was a media or an asteroid I mean a meteor or a volcanic eruption the aster..."

"primate brain basically to increase its surface area but if you stretched it out the human neocortex is still a flat structure it's about the size of a table napkin just as thin and it's basically cre..."

"pyramid there's fewer and fewer modules and that was the enabling factor for us to invent language and art music every human culture we've ever discovered has music no primary culture really has music..."

"develop those ideas commercially because that's how I went about things as a serial entrepreneur and said well we'll invest but let me give you a better idea what you do it here at Google we have a bi..."

"very good progress on that I mean just last week you may have read that two systems asked paragraph comprehension test it's really very impressive winning came to Google we were trying to past these p..."

"that's I think a pretty impressive milestone so I I've been developing I've got a team of about 45 people and we've been developing this hierarchical model we don't use Markov models because we can us..."

"and there are several problems with big deep neural nets one is the fact that you really do need a billion examples and we don't sometimes we can generate them it's in the case of NGO or if we have a ..."

"didn't matter now it matters a lot so life expectancy really means you know how long would you live what's the in terms of a statistical likelihood if there were not continued scientific progress but ..."

"so if we can hang in there we may get to see the remarkable century ahead thank you very much no question please raise your hand we'll get your mic hi so you mentioned both neural neural network model..."

"that was a very diligent effort in Texas to define all of common-sense reasoning and it kind of collapsed on itself and became impossible to debug because you fix one thing and it break three other th..."

"so I understand how we want you know use the neocortex to extract useful stuff and commercialize that but I'm wondering how you know our middle brain and organs that are below the neocortex will be us..."

"actually function okay a lot of other areas of the brain control autonomic functions like breathing and but our thinking really is is controlled by the neocortex in terms of mastering intelligence I t..."

"today and that was the feeling of the Luddites which was an actual society that formed in 1800 the automation of the textile industry in England they looked at all these jobs going away and felt that ..."

"doing that well for most of the last 100 years through education we've expanded to K through 12 and constant dollars tenfold we've gone from 38,000 college students in 1870 to 15 million today more re..."

"are doing today things we couldn't imagine you know even twenty years ago you showed many graphs that goes through exponential growth but I haven't seen one that isn't so I would be very interested in..."

"for a long time there's recently a criticism that well test scores have it's actually a remarkably straight linear progression so humans think it's like twenty eight hundred and it just sort passed ou..."

"equipment and and is there a way for a human success access that meaning well we started using technology to shore up weaknesses and our own capabilities so physically I mean who here could build this..."

"technological expression of humanity and we use technology to extend our reach you know I couldn't reach that fruit at that higher branch a thousand years ago so we invented a tool to extend our physi..."

"future yeah well the world was first introduced to a human-made existential risk when I was in elementary school we would have these civil defense drills to get under our desk and put our hands behind..."

"the next decade and the number of people who have been harmed either through intentional or accidental abuse of biotechnology so far zero actually I take that back there was one boy who died in gene t..."

"if you are in that situation and find some AI that will be on your side but basically it's going to eyeb Aleve we have been headed through technology to event to a better reality look around the world..."