BigDataFr recommends:Peter Norvig: How Computers Learn
« Peter Norvig talks about his long experience in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Computer scientists have developed complex programming languages and systems to allow us to describe, step-by-step how to solve problems such as keeping bank statements balanced. But there are other problems that we can’t articulate how to solve them: how do we recognize a person’s face, or translate a paragraph from German to English? We can’t describe how we do it, and so we can’t easily program a computer to do it, but we can train a computer to learn how to do it. This talk explains how computers learn from examples and what are the promises and limitations of these techniques. »
The talk starts at 10:56
Peter Norvig is Director of Research at Google Inc. Previously he was head of Google’s core search algorithms group, and of NASA Ames’s Computational Sciences Division, making him NASA’s most senior computer scientist. He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001. He has taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California at Berkeley, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1986 and the distinguished alumni award in 2006. He was co-teacher of an Artifical Intelligence class that signed up 160,000 students, helping to kick off the current round of massive open online classes.
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Source: http://www.informatik.tuwien.ac.at/english/vienna-goedel-lectures/2015