Shanahan: Massive commercial interest differentiates current AI cycle from previous waves
Murray Shanahan · a16z Podcast | Artificial Intelligence and the 'Space of Possible Minds' · Jan 2, 2019 · at 13:06
Murray Shanahan, Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London, responds to questions about whether the 2015 AI wave is merely another transient hype cycle.
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“So I think there might be something special this time and one of the indicators of that is the fact that there's so much commercial and industrial in, interest in in, in AI and in machine learning.”
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