Daniel and Chris go beyond the current state of the art in deep learning to explore the next evolutions in artificial intelligence. From Yoshua Bengio’s NeurIPS keynote, which urges us forward towards System 2 deep learning, to DARPA’s vision of a 3rd Wave of AI, Chris and Daniel investigate the incremental steps between today’s AI and possible future manifestations of artificial general intelligence (AGI).

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Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

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“Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman

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