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Educator and entrepreneur Sebastian Thrun wants us to use AI to free humanity of repetitive work and unleash our creativity. In an inspiring, informative conversation with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Thrun discusses the progress of deep learning, why we shouldn’t fear runaway AI and how society will be better off if dull, tedious work is done with the help of machines. “Only one percent of interesting things have been invented yet,” Thrun says. “I believe all of us are insanely creative … [AI] will empower us to turn creativity into action.”


 

AI is massively transforming our world, but there’s one thing it cannot do: love. In a visionary talk, computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee details how the US and China are driving a deep learning revolution — and shares a blueprint for how humans can thrive in the age of AI by harnessing compassion and creativity. “AI is serendipity,” Lee says.


 

Artificial intelligence is getting smarter by leaps and bounds — within this century, research suggests, a computer AI could be as “smart” as a human being. And then, says Nick Bostrom, it will overtake us: “Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.” A philosopher and technologist, Bostrom asks us to think hard about the world we’re building right now, driven by thinking machines. Will our smart machines help to preserve humanity and our values — or will they have values of their own?


 

If you read a poem and feel moved by it, but then find out it was actually written by a computer, would you feel differently about the experience? Would you think that the computer had expressed itself and been creative, or would you feel like you had fallen for a cheap trick? In this talk, writer Oscar Schwartz examines why we react so strongly to the idea of a computer writing poetry — and how this reaction helps us understand what it means to be human.


 

John Searle is the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His Talk at Google entitled “Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence” is focused on the philosophy of mind and the potential for consciousness in artificial intelligence.


Other interesting TED Talks on Artificial Intelligence and Humanity

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BBC. 2015. Can a Machine Ever Think?
Talks at Google. 2015. Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence by John Searle.
The Artificial Intelligence Channel. 2017. The Coming Era of Immortality & Artificial Intelligence – Prof. Yuval Harari
The Artificial Intelligence Channel. 2018. Yuval Harari on Transhumanism and The Singularity.
World Economic Forum. 2018. Will the Future be Human?
Yuval Noah Harari. 2017. Talking About a Revolution: Life in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.