What’s next for AI?
In Q&A sessions, IBM gathered the opinions of AI visionaries to consider what the future might
hold for AI.
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Kevin Kelly, Tech Author and co-founder of Wired
Kevin is optimistic about the effect of AI on jobs, and believes that a key role of AI will be to
transform big data into something businesses can use.
Mark Sagar, Oscar-winning AI engineer
Mark combines his knowledge of computer graphics, human physiology and artificial intelligence
to develop emotionally responsive avatars for businesses.
Chieko Asakawa, Accessibility research pioneer & IBM Fellow
One of the world’s premier accessibility researchers, Chieko is excited about the progress of Ai in
helping blind people experience and explore the world.
Yoshua Bengio, Preeminent deep learning researcher
Describe as a founding father of deep learning, Yoshua sees unsupervised learning and natural
language processing as being the areas in which AI will develop very quickly.
Margaret Boden, Veteran AI & cognitive scientist
Margaret is interested in how AI will help us understand human creativity, and champions a
multidisciplinary approach to AI.
What will our society look like when AI is everywhere?
Writing for the Smithsonian magazine, Stephan Talty and Jules Julien paint a fiction picture of how
life might be in a society where AI is almost everywhere. The full article can be read here: What
Will Our Society Look Like When Artificial Intelligence Is Everywhere?
AI has come a long way since the seminal “Dartmouth workshop” at Dartmouth college in June
1956. A new discipline was being discussed, so new that “People didn’t agree on what it was, how
to do it or even what to call it,” said Grace Solomonoff, widow of one of the workshop attendees. In
recent decades, AI has developed to be present in our everyday lives, to an extent that has caused
some to wonder: how far can this go, and what will happen then?
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In this lesson, you have learned:
• AI experts have varied views of the long-term future of AI.
• Understanding and generating natural language is likely to be the next big growth area for
AI, along with vision systems for the blind.
Optional:
If you want to learn more about the future of AI, watch:
• IBM Think 2019 - Chairman's Address: Building Cognitive Enterprises
• IBM Think 2019 – The Future of Infrastructure
then you go ahead to implement
those neural networks from scratch and your languages