Francois is not only the creator of the Keras deep learning library, but he's also a Google AI researcher. He will also be speaking at PyImageConf 2018 in August of this year. Please, join me in welcoming Francois to the PyImageSearch -- it is truthfully a privilege to have him here. I know you are very busy with your work at Google AI and on the Keras library -- I really appreciate you taking the time to do this interview. It's quite the honor to have you on the PyImageSearch blog! For people who don't know you, who are you and what do you do?

Serving hors d'oeuvres is not as easy as it might seem! You have to move carefully between people, gently and politely offer them hors d'oeuvres, make sure that you have not forgotten to serve someone in the room, and refill the serving tray when required. These are the challenges that robots have to face in the Hors d'Oeuvres, Anyone? For the fifth year that this event has now been held, five entries took on the challenge of creating service robots who can offer hors d'oeuvres to attendees of the robot exhibition. Such robots require the ability to move safely in a crowded environment, cover a serving area, find and stop at people to offer food and interact with them, detect when more food is needed, and take the actions necessary to refill the serving tray.

In 1965, I. J. Good described for the first time the notion of "intelligence explosion", as it relates to artificial intelligence (AI): Decades later, the concept of an "intelligence explosion" -- leading to the sudden rise of "superintelligence" and the accidental end of the human race -- has taken hold in the AI community. Famous business leaders are casting it as a major risk, greater than nuclear war or climate change. Average graduate students in machine learning are endorsing it. In a 2015 email survey targeting AI researchers, 29% of respondents answered that intelligence explosion was "likely" or "highly likely". A further 21% considered it a serious possibility.

In 1965, I. J. Good described for the first time the notion of "intelligence explosion", as it relates to artificial intelligence (AI): Decades later, the concept of an "intelligence explosion" -- leading to the sudden rise of "superintelligence" and the accidental end of the human race -- has taken hold in the AI community. Famous business leaders are casting it as a major risk, greater than nuclear war or climate change. Average graduate students in machine learning are endorsing it. In a 2015 email survey targeting AI researchers, 29% of respondents answered that intelligence explosion was "likely" or "highly likely". A further 21% considered it a serious possibility.

François Pachet has the capacity to change the music industry as we know it. You probably don't know who he is. I don't expect you to. He's a French scientist and foremost expert on music composed by artificial intelligence. Yes, music composed by computers.