AIs won't really rule us, they will be very interested in us: Juergen Schmidhuber

Juergen Schmidhuber, 54, is a computer scientist who works on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Considered to be one of the pioneers in improving neural networks, his techniques, the best known being Long Short-Term Memory, have been incorporated in speech translation software in smartphones. In this interview conducted in Berlin, he speaks of developments in AI, why the fear of job loss due to AI is unfounded, and his work. I would be quite biased because I'd say what's happening in my lab is the most exciting. My goal remains the same as it has been for a very long time: to build a general-purpose AI that can learn to do multiple things.