Jürgen Schmidhuber is the main developer of Long Short-Term Memory" (LSTM) Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). His witty talks in AI always attract lots of audience. Here is his short talk on "When creative machines overtake man".
Andrew Ng is a Machine Learning computer scientist. He is the former chief scientist at Baidu Research (Chinese version of Google) in Silicon Valley. He is an adjunct professor at Stanford University. Ng is also the co-founder and chairman of Coursera, an online education platform with more than 24 million registered users and more than 2,000 courses. Here is Andrew Ng's introduction of Deep Learning and its impact: "AI: The New Electricity".
Demis Hassabis founded DeepMind in September 2010. This small startup company without any physical products was acquired by Google in 2014 at the price more than 500 millions dollars. In March 2016, a program powered by DeepMind called AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol—a 9th dan Go player and one of the highest ranked players in the world—with 4-1 in a five-game match. Go is an ancient game that possesses more possibilities than the total number of atoms in the visible universe. Here is the DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis' talk on "Artificial Intelligence (AI) invents new knowledge and teaches human new theories".
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