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Podcast #39: Quantum Computing, The State of The Art, featuring whurley
“As an entrepreneur I like to know the next two or three things I might start a company on. For me it was robotics, bio-hacking, and quantum.”–whurley.
The “Father of Artificial Intelligence” Says Singularity Is 30 Years Away
All evidence points to the fact that the singularity is coming (regardless of which futurist you believe).
But what difference does it make? We are talking about a difference of just 15 years. The real question is, is the singularity actually on its way?
At the World Government Summit in Dubai, I spoke with Jürgen Schmidhuber, who is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at AI company NNAISENSE, Director of the Swiss AI lab IDSIA, and heralded by some as the “father of artificial intelligence” to find out.
He is confident that the singularity will happen, and rather soon. Schmidhuber says it “is just 30 years away, if the trend doesn’t break, and there will be rather cheap computational devices that have as many connections as your brain but are much faster,” he said.
China dreams of becoming an AI utopia – here’s the reality
This is the fourth instalment in a four-part series examining the brewing US-China war over the development and deployment of artificial intelligence technology.
China has had success with AI and surveillance, but when it comes to social issues such as education, health care and agriculture, there is still a ways to go.
China has had success with private sector AI, but when it comes to social issues such as education, health care and agriculture, there is still some way to go to reach its goals.
