Video: Will AI & Robotics Make Humans Obsolete? - insideHPC

In this video from TiEcon 2016, Dr. Dharmendra S. Modha from IBM and Christopher Re from Stanford present: Data Economy – Brain Inspired Computing Will AI & Robotics Make Humans Obsolete. "The human brain is an ideal model. It's small and efficient, and it can process many types of inputs almost instantly. Computers have been compared to brains since the dawn of computer science. More recently, researchers have started to design computers that are modeled on how the brain works, a field now known as neuromorphic computing. IBM has developed end-to-end technology and ecosystem to create and program energy-efficient, brain-inspired machines that mimic the brain's abilities for perception, action, and cognition. The ecosystem consists of an indexcard-sized board with 1 million neurons; a simulator; a programming language; an integrated programming environment; a library of algorithms as well as applications; firmware; tools for composing neural networks for deep learning; a teaching curriculum; and cloud enablement. The ecosystem will be demonstrated on a number of datasets with near state-of-the-art accuracy and unprecedented energy-efficiency. Today, 100 researchers at 30 universities, government agencies, and companies are exploring the ecosystem. IBM has developed new scale-up and scale-out systems -- with 16 million neurons -- that will be presented in Dr Modha's pioneering research talk. Watson wins at Jeopardy and enters industrial applications while AlphaGo defeats the human Go champion. No day goes by before the dooms day prediction of AI infused Robots taking over our world comes up in the news. Will Artificial Intelligence make us obsolete? Tech optimists like to argue a new revolution in robotics will simply eliminate old jobs and create new ones. Even as large companies look to streamline with the help of automation, new technology also opens up possibilities for new products and services. Adaptation, they contest, is what has seen society thrive since the industrial revolution. Stanford has been in the middle of AI revolution and experts including speaker Dr Chris Re will weigh in on how close we are to AI domination and how data science can help human kind."