We’re all working together on trying to build really intelligent, flexible AI systems. We want those systems to be able to come into a new problem and use pieces of knowledge that they’ve developed from solving many other problems to all of a sudden be able to solve that new problem in a flexible way, which is essentially one of the hallmarks of human intelligence. The question is, how can we build that capability into computer systems?
GOOGLE SENIOR FELLOW, HEAD OF AI AND GOOGLE BRAIN
Jeff Dean joined Google in 1999, and has played a role in developing many of Google’s core systems in areas like search, advertising, news and language translation, as well as in the design of the company’s distributed computing architecture. In recent years, he has focused on AI and machine learning and worked on the development of TensorFlow, Google’s widely-used open source software for deep learning. He currently guides Google’s future path in AI as director of artificial intelligence...