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Pedro Domingos takes his audience on a whirlwind tour of the new superpowers you'll acquire, the technologies that will underpin them, and what you'll do with them in a recent TEDx Talk. Fasten your seatbelt - from controlling the world with your mind to editing your own genes, the next hundred years of your life are going to be a wild ride.
Pedro Domingos is Professor at University of Washington and author of The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World.Domingos is a researcher in machine learning and known for markov logic network enabling uncertain inference. According to Domingos, algorithms increasingly run our lives. They find books, movies, jobs, and dates for us, manage our investments, and discover new drugs. More and more, these algorithms work by learning from the trails of data we leave in our newly digital world. Like curious children, they observe us, imitate, and experiment.
In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want, before we even ask.
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Machine learning is the automation of discovery that will enable intelligent robots and computers to program themselves. No field of science today is more important yet more shrouded in mystery. In his book, Domingos, one of the field's leading researchers, charts a course through machine learning's five major schools of thought, showing how they turn ideas from neuroscience, evolution, psychology, physics, and statistics into algorithms ready to serve you. Step by step, he assembles a blueprint for the future universal learner—the Master Algorithm—and discusses what it means for you, and for the future of business, science, and society.Domingos recently took to the TEDx stage in Los Angeles to look into the future of what machine learning may lead to. Domingos postulates that most of the people in his audience will live far beyond the age of 70, "maybe even forever, because of the progress medicine will make in our lifetimes."
"A decades amount of progress now is roughly equivalent to the entire 18th Century," says Domingos. You'll live a lot longer than you think, thanks to the progress that medicine will make in your lifetime. And because progress is accelerating, you'll see a lot more new things in the next decades than in your life to date.
From self driving cars, to 3D printing to virtual reality, Domingos projects a world that is much different than what we experience today.
"Even though you will have almost unimaginable power, you will still have to make hard choices, and your life will be more complicated than ever."
In 40 or 50 years time, Domingos says that all of the previous changes will be outdone by the ability to control biology. We will be immune to all diseases, known and unknown. "Health problems will be an oxymoron," he says.There will be tradeoffs, Domingos warns. "Even though you will have almost unimaginable power, you will still have to make hard choices, and your life will be more complicated than ever."
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