For Jürgen Schmidhuber, a recognized pioneer in AI, artificial intelligence is much more than another technological revolution. He sees it as the opportunity to transcend humanity and biology. In this conversation, Jürgen and Azeem Azhar discuss what the next thirty years of AI will look like.

Jürgen and Azeem also discuss:

• The role of Long Short-Term Memory architecture in recent AI breakthroughs.
• Why the next AI wave will see machines actively shaping the data that they perceive.
• The second- and third-order consequences of bringing these more sophisticated artificial neural networks into our world.

Further reading:

• “An AI taught itself to play a video game – for the first time, it’s beating humans” (The Conversation, May 2019)
• “Moving Beyond Cloud Computing to Edge Computing” (CableLabs, May 2019)
• “An All-Neural On-Device Speech Recognizer” (Google, March 2019)
• “Google’s head of translation on fighting bias in language and why AI loves religious texts” (The Verge, January 2019)

Jürgen Schmidhuber