Murray Shanahan is a professor of cognitive robotics at Imperial College London and a senior research scientist at DeepMind. With a PHD from Cambridge University he has carried out work in artificial intelligence, robotics, and cognitive science. Murray was a scientific advisor for the 2014 film Ex Machina. In 2017 he joined DeepMind, retaining his professorship at Imperial College on a part-time basis.
In the podcast we spoke about John McCarthy, the son of an Irish immigrant also called John from Valentia Island in Kerry and maybe the most important Irish American computer scientist pioneer and inventor, known as the father of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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Chapters
0:03 Introduction
1:39 Murray Shanahan Introduction
2:32 Artificial General Intelligence
3:56 DeepMind
5:20 AlphaGo System
7:56 John McCarthy & AI
11:08 The West Of Ireland & AI
12:06 Deep Learning
14:05 Machine Learning Techniques
15:53 Close
