We Need to Talk About... The Singularity - Predict Conference
Channel: Predict - Europe’s Leading Data Conference
Date: 2018-01-09

Panel: We Need to Talk About... The Singularity - Predict 2017
Panellists: John Elder, Ken Finnegan, Barry O'Sullivan and Patricia Scanlon
Chaired by Cronan McNamara
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0:00 Panelist Introductions 
0:29 Introducing the Singularity
2:42 Robots are doing human jobs
3:42 AI has fallen laughably short of its potential until all of a sudden it hasn't 
4:16 John Elder discusses the history of AI underdelivering 
5:17 John Elder: all of a sudden, AI is winning in many niches
5:50 John Elder: "I don't believe the Singularity will occur"
7:23 Barry O'Sullivan: "I don't believe the Singularity will ever happen"
8:10 Barry O'Sullivan: The power required by the brain as a computational system is tiny
9:44 Barry O'Sullivan: With AI we build smart tools, not intelligence
10:30 Patricia Scanlon: It has to be a longer conversation, we can't predict where we'll be in the next 100 years or 300 years 
12:59 Ken Finnegan: IDA working on how to make Ireland the AI Island
15:52 Ken Finnegan: access to open data as the fuel for AI and where Ireland stands
16:36 Ken Finnegan: Sport-tech and AI in Ireland
17:13 Barry O'Sullivan: the link between AI and GDPR - Article 22
18:05 Barry O'Sullivan: The problem with deep learning and explainable AI
18:55 John Elder: "If deep learning is outlawed, only outlaws will use deep learning"
19:15 Cronan McNamara: "Imagine the singularity has happened, how will we know it has happened?
20:15 We start to recognise the singularity has happened, what happens next? 
20:56 Show of hands, is the Singularity inevitable? 

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