Falling Walls: The Past, Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence

Editor's Note: The Falling Walls Conference is an annual, global gathering of forward thinking individuals from 80 countries organized by the Falling Walls Foundation. Each year, on November 9--the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall--20 of the world's leading scientists are invited to Berlin to present their current breakthrough research. The aim of the conference is to address two questions: Which will be the next walls to fall? And how will that change our lives? The author of the following essay is speaking at this year's Falling Walls gathering.