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François Chollet: Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI | Artificial Intelligence Podcast

François Chollet is the creator of Keras, which is an open source deep learning library that is designed to enable fast, user-friendly experimentation with deep neural networks. It serves as an interface to several deep learning libraries, most popular of which is TensorFlow, and it was integrated into TensorFlow main codebase a while back. Aside from creating an exceptionally useful and popular library, François is also a world-class AI researcher and software engineer at Google, and is definitely an outspoken, if not controversial, personality in the AI world, especially in the realm of ideas around the future of artificial intelligence. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast.

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François twitter: https://twitter.com/fchollet
François web: https://fchollet.com/

OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
1:14 – Self-improving AGI
7:51 – What is intelligence?
15:23 – Science progress
26:57 – Fear of existential threats of AI
28:11 – Surprised by deep learning
30:38 – Keras and TensorFlow 2.0
42:28 – Software engineering on a large team
46:23 – Future of TensorFlow and Keras
47:53 – Current limits of deep learning
58:05 – Program synthesis
1:00:36 – Data and hand-crafting of architectures
1:08:37 – Concerns about short-term threats in AI
1:24:21 – Concerns about long-term existential threats from AI
1:29:11 – Feeling about creating AGI
1:33:49 – Does human-level intelligence need a body?
1:34:19 – Good test for intelligence
1:50:30 – AI winter

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