Artificial Intelligence

A very short introduction to Artificial Intelligence, its varieties, and the substance in current claims of phenomenal success. (Talk at betahaus Hamburg, June 2016)

2. “The dream is finally arriving. This is what it was all leading up to.” Bill Gates, 2016
8. Strong AI
9. “Machines will be capable, within 20 years, of doing any work a man can do.” Herbert A. Simon, 1965
10. “Since then, the expected arrival date has been receding at a rate of one year per year.” Nick Bostrom, 2014
11. AI Winter(s)
12. Weak AI
16. Narrow General AI
17. “I don’t think you can time AI with Moore’s Law. AI is a software problem.” Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2016
18. “Can we create superintelligences without knowing how our brains work? Only in the sense that you can make airplanes without knowing how a bird flies. You don’t need to be an expert in bird biology, but at the same time, it's difficult to know enough to build an airplane without realizing some high- level notion of how a bird might glide or push down air with its wings.” Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2016
19. Neuroscience can’t even comprehend Donkey Kong. http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/26/055624
21. On the other hand…
26. And one more thing…
28. Lesetipps (teilvalidiert)