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-: Hello and welcome to the course

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on Artificial Intelligence A to Z.

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My name's Kirill Eremenko

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and on behalf of Hadelin de Ponteves,

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the co-instructor in this course,

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I'd like to welcome you into this amazing adventure

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that we're about to start.

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And what's up with this timer?

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Well, the reason for this timer

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is this is my third time recording this tutorial

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and I get so excited about these things

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and it just goes over,

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like blows over 10 minutes or 20 minutes.

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So I decided to limit myself to five minutes

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to get you excited about this course,

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and why it's the best time to be in AI.

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So let's dive into it.

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We've got four and a half minutes left.

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Why AI?

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Well, we've all heard about applications

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of artificial intelligence

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that are popping up around us.

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Self-driving cars, medicine, heavy machinery,

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customer service, the list just keeps going on

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and on and on.

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But why right now?

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Why not 10 years ago or not 10 years later?

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Well, the answer is hidden in this curve,

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which so called Moore's law.

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It was originally identified in 1965 by Gordon Moore,

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and what it says is that the power of the average computer,

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like in very simple terms,

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the power of the average computer

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that you can buy for $1,000

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will double every 18 to 24 months.

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And that's been, as you can see,

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the law has held constant through good times and bad,

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war and peace, and the recession, depressions.

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Nothing stops this curve.

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And we've already surpassed the brain of an insect

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for an average computer

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that you can buy for 1,000 bucks.

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We're sitting at about the processing power

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of the brain of a rat.

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By 2025, we'll be at the brain of a human.

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As you can see, it's exponentially growing

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and so this is a great time

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to be in artificial intelligence.

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It's just gonna be doubling,

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the power is gonna be doubling every time.

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Three minutes.

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So some of my favorite examples

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are related to games like chess and Go.

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So in 1997,

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DeepMind was the first computer

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to beat Garry Kasparov in chess.

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It was a huge thing.

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It was like one of the most broadcasted chess games

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on the planet ever.

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And at the same time...

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And considered an impossible feat.

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Now on any phone, you can install an app with chess,

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which no human player will ever beat

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because computers are that good now.

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You just cannot beat a computer in chess

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if you put it on the hardest setting.

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And then just recently in March 2016,

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a computer won against the 18 world times champion,

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18 world champion of the game of Go, Lee Sedol.

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Again, considered an impossible feat,

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even at the start of the match,

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it was considered to be impossible.

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That it's only gonna happen 10 years from then.

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But it happened.

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And by the way,

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if you'd like, find out a bit more about the game of Go.

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It's very, very exciting, very interesting.

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It's got 40 million players, 3,000-year-old game.

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Very popular in China, Japan and Korea.

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And it's much more complex than chess.

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So just there's many more impossible combinations.

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So again, something that was considered impossible

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is happening and it's happening now,

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and much earlier than its time.

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So how are we going for time?

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1 minute 52 seconds.

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So that's what you'll see from this course.

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You'll see that we're using games to train AI.

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Why are we doing that?

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Because games are a confined environment

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where if we can beat a game,

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using an artificial intelligence,

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then we can use the same principles

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to apply it to business,

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and that's the exact same thing

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that the team at Google DeepMind

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who created AlphaGo who won against Lee Sedol,

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that's exactly what they did.

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They applied artificial intelligence

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to a Google warehouse to control the air cooling

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and what they found this is the electricity bill,

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the electricity consumption.

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You can see it's going like this.

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As soon they switch on the AI,

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bam, it goes down.

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And then they switch it back off, it goes up.

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They were able to save 40%

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on their electricity bill,

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and I have one minute left.

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40%.

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So you can find the full article on the DeepMind blog.

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That is insane.

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Imagine that for a company of Google's scale,

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which has millions and millions of servers.

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So there you go, that's your connection

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between applying artificial intelligence in games

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and applying it to business.

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Very, very closely related

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and that's what you will be able to do after this course.

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And finally, one of my favorite blogs,

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waitbutwhy.com.

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Check it out, amazing blog by Tim Urban.

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This is how he describes the situation we're in.

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This is us and technological progress.

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We're sitting here.

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This is what it looks like.

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It looks very linear.

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But because it's an exponential boom,

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this is what's gonna happen in the next years.

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And there's very strong evidence

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from the things we're seeing

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to suggest we're sitting right over here

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on the kink of the curve.

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And that, my friends, in short

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is why it's so exciting to be alive right now,

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why it's so exciting to be

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and get into and be in the space of artificial intelligence

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because the power you'll have,

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the applications that you will be able

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to create or the ways you'll be able to apply it

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is gonna be intense and insane.

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And I can't wait to see you

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on the first tutorial of this course.

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Let's get this started.