TED Talks- Deep learning AI review

These are the questions I will answer in this blog. What was the topic and argument of the presentation? How were visual or other props used in the presentation? Was it effective? Were questions asked? Humor used? How was the pacing? Was there a ‘path’ through the presentation? Were you engaged or inspired?

The TED talk I watched was on new generation of computers programming themselves or another way to put it deep learning artificial intelligence.  In this TED talk power point and video and images were presented ranging from video footage of what a self driving car sees to photos of different types of skin diseases. I believe they were effective I believe if they weren't used the presentation would have been a lot less impressive. Some of the questions that were asked were concerns of a AI learning to much and going out of control this brushed off by explaining that all AI so far are specific AI and not general AI. 

Humor was used but the audience didn't find it that funny or at least to me they didn't seem to find it to funny as I didn't here any laughter. The pacing was good and there was a 'path' it flowed nicely and the amount of time spent on each topic was on point. It started off with self driving cars then went to computers that can identify skin diseases then concerns about AI. I was engaged all the way through actually sad the TED talk was so short.



https://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_thrun_and_chris_anderson_the_new_generation_of_computers_is_programming_itself#t-1446911