Aude Oliva - 2019 Vienna Conference

Imagine if the next breakthrough in artificial intelligence came from the root of intelligence itself: the human brain. At a time of rapid advances in intelligence research across many disciplines, the Intelligence Quest will encourage researchers to investigate the societal implications of their work as they pursue hard problems lying beyond the current horizon of what is known. Some of these advances may be foundational in nature, involving new insight into human intelligence, and new methods to allow machines to learn effectively. Others may be practical tools for use in a wide array of research endeavors, such as disease diagnosis, drug discovery, materials and manufacturing design, automated systems, synthetic biology, and finance. Today we set out to answer two big questions: How does human intelligence work in engineering terms? And how can we use that deep grasp of human intelligence to build wiser and more useful machines, to the benefit of society?