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