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Udacity President Sebastian Thrun speaking at Vanity Fair's New Establishment Summit.
Prepare for your car to become an intellectual giant -- and for you to like it.
In a highly optimistic forecast at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in San Francisco, computer scientist Sebastian Thrun said artificial intelligence will radically reshape our lives for the better.
"In the last 200 or 300 years, we have made ourselves into superhumans," able to plow a field a thousand times faster than our ancestors, fly across the Atlantic Ocean and talk to a person in Australia, he said. Artificial intelligence will take us to the next step: "Rather than replacing our muscles, we're going to be making our brains stronger."
That'll start with artificially intelligent cars, said Thrun, who rose to Silicon Valley fame in his former job leading Google's self-driving car project.
"All the unborn cars get born with the full wisdom of their forefathers. AI cars will outpace all of us because they can learn faster," said Thrun, still a Stanford professor and now president of online learning site Udacity.
Artificial intelligence is spreading like wildfire across the technology industry, screening out junk email, labeling our photos, translating foreign languages and helping us type faster. But not everybody is so sanguine about the possibility of AI machines taking over high-skilled jobs.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 24 2016, @01:10AM
> C3PO, robot butlers and some post-capitalist utopia
More likely Marvin and the marketing department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. Need I remind you of, "A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came." (DNA)
I'm in with the idea of improving interfaces so that computers are better at what they do best. And I don't mean various versions of the MS Office "ribbon" that seem to be popping up everywhere, hiding all kinds of little-used features.
Will AI give us better office tools? If we get Clippy (or Eddie the shipboard computer) I may have to retire to the woods.