Recent Developments in Artificial Intelligence

Few days ago, I was asked by the dean of our faculty to present what is behind recent success of artificial intelligence when AlphaGo defeated legendary player Lee Sedol in the ancient game of Go. I do not know anything about playing Go so decided to focus on Artificial intelligence in general and talk about recent advances, background, state of the art and applications. It looks like many people understand the importance of the topic and are willing to come. The capacity of the lecture room is however limited so I decided to share the story line of my talk here on Medium. This is the outline of the talk.