Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A Special Report, Pt. 1

Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A Special Report, Pt. 1

[embedded content] Has the artificial intelligence revolution taken us to the verge of witnessing the birth of a new species? How long until machines become smarter than us? Welcome to robot nursery school,” Pieter Abbeel says as he opens the door to the Robot Learning Lab on the seventh floor of a sleek new building on the northern edge of the UC-Berkeley campus. The lab is chaotic: bikes leaning against the wall, a dozen or so grad students in disorganized cubicles, whiteboards covered with indecipherable equations. Abbeel, 38, is a thin, wiry guy, dressed in jeans and a stretched-out T-shirt. He moved to the U.S. from Belgium in 2000 to get a Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford and is now one of the world’s foremost experts in understanding the…


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