General AI (Artificial Intelligence) is coming closer thanks to combining neural networks, narrow AI and symbolic AI. Yves Mulkers, Data strategist and founder of 7wData talked to Wouter Denayer, Chief Technology Officer at IBM Belgium, to share his enlightening insights on where we are and where we are going with Artificial Intelligence. Join us in our chat with Wouter. Yves Mulkers Hi and welcome, today we're together with Wouter Denayer, Chief Technology Officer at IBM. Wouter, you're kind of authority in Belgium and I think outside the borders of Belgium as well on artificial intelligence. Can you tell me a bit more about what you're doing at IBM and What keeps you busy? Wouter Denayer Yeah, Yves, thank you, and thanks for having me. Of course, if you call me an authority already, I think if you call yourself an authority, then something is wrong. It's almost impossible to follow everything that's going on in AI, the progress is actually amazing. I do love to follow everything that's going on as much as possible, especially focussing on what IBM Research is doing, we can come back to that later. In my role as CTO for IBM Belgium, I communicate a lot with C-level people in our strategic clients. Sometimes global clients that really want to know what's coming, what is this AI thing. People understand more or less.

General AI (Artificial Intelligence) is coming closer thanks to combining neural networks, narrow AI and symbolic AI. Yves Mulkers, Data strategist and founder of 7wData talked to Wouter Denayer, Chief Technology Officer at IBM Belgium, to share his enlightening insights on where we are and where we are going with Artificial Intelligence. Join us in our chat with Wouter. Yves Mulkers Hi and welcome, today we're together with Wouter Denayer, Chief Technology Officer at IBM. Wouter, you're kind of authority in Belgium and I think outside the borders of Belgium as well on artificial intelligence. Can you tell me a bit more about what you're doing at IBM and What keeps you busy?

We made good progress on narrow AI, very good at specific tasks like object recognition and speech to text. On the other hand, we are still far off from General AI. Various challenges still exist in transparency of the outcomes of AI, trust by the ones using the algorithms and the shortage of skills. AI will play an important role to overcome these shortages. Join us in our chat with Wouter.