DLD Special: CognitionX Tuesday Briefing - CognitionX

Yesterday, during DLD Conference, Demis Hassabis, founder and CEO of DeepMind, discussed AlphaGo beating Go-champion with machine learning, and what the collaboration between humans and machines will be bringing in the future. He highlighted the importance of staying creative and follow our own intuitions when working with AI, forecasting 10 exciting years ahead of us. We also hosted our own panel on "Fixing Education for the A.I. age" where our panelists discussed the shifts in education that will push towards a computational knowledge economy. Conrad Wolfram introduced us to the need to teach students the skills to solve problems with the support of computers, instead of learning how to do specific things (particularly in maths) ourselves. Jurgen Schmidhuber instead observed how we are only thinking of short-term improvements in the education system, while we should be looking decades ahead.