True Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything - Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber

My speech will be about the most important about the grand theme of the 1st century which is the rise of artificial intelligence which is going o transform every aspect of our civilization and before we will look at the content rillettes have a brief look at the previous century what was the most important thing in the previous century the journal nature in 1999 made a list of the most influential inventions after twenty century and number one of class once the invention from 1908 which made the 20th century stand out among our centuries ever in the history of mankind because it was the one that drove the population explosion from 1.6 billion people in the year nineteen hundred too soon 10 billion it's a chemical thing and a high pressure and high temperature nitrogen is extracted from thin air to make still 500 million tons of artificial fertilizer for a year now without that stuff half of humankind would not even exist this planet could sustain at most four billion people without that one invention billions and billions and billions would never have lived without it and soon two out of three people on this planet will depend on this one single mention nothing else was remotely as influential as an however the way I explosion of the present century is going to be much more impactful and grander than that because that we are not talking about smaller numbers such as for or 10 but we are talking about trillions of trillions and this has a lot to do with the fact that computers are getting faster by a factor of 10 per euro per five years and this trend has held at least since nineteen forty one man cannot souza built the first working program controlled computer and nineteen forty one seventy five years gone every five years since then computers became roughly 10 times cheaper which means that now we have a factor of a million billions and this trend has been running for a long time but only recently we have approached the computational power of a small animal brain and in the near future for the first time for a thousand euros.