Prof. Steve Furber, University of Manchester, Principal Designer of the BBC Micro & the ARM...
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Towards intelligent machines
Steve FurberICL Professor of Computer
EngineeringThe University of Manchester
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65 years ago…
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https://www.technologyreview.com/s/513696/deep-learning/
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2455758/google-alphago-victory-paves-way-for-an-ai-first-world
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http://observer.com/2015/08/stephen-hawking-elon-musk-and-bill-gates-warn-about-artificial-intelligence/
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http://futureoflife.org/2015/12/15/pentagon-seeks-12-15-billion-for-ai-weapons-research/
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The Human Brain ProjectA €1B EU ICT FlagshipResearch areas:
•Neuroscience•neuroinformatics•brain simulation
•Medicine•medical informatics
•early diagnosis•personalized treatment
•Future computing•interactive supercomputing•neuromorphic computing
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SpiNNaker machine
• HBP platform– 500,000 cores– 6 cabinets
(including server)
• 500M neurons– 500B synapses
• Launch– 30 March 2016
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The dawn of Cognition•Machines are beginning to
sense and make sense of their environment
–driverless cars–robot vacuum cleaners
–?…•Understanding the brain
will accelerate this trend•What are the
consequences?
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Conclusions•Turing’s vision of machines with human-like
intelligence has yet to be realised•he would be surprised by this!
•AI is seen as an “existential threat?”•but ‘strong’ AI is still far from a reality
•Deep Networks have transformed machine learning•speech recognition, computer vision ,…•but currently require very large machines
•Cognitive systems are a reality•autonomous sensing and acting