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A couple of weeks ago I went to the Sydney Developers Meetup. I wanted to meet up with other programmers in Sydney and get more involved with the Sydney technology scene. Having been in the UK for so long, I feel like I am really out of touch with what is going on in Australia.
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The Edge interview with Kai-Fu Lee is very good. He is one of the original A.I. researchers and has worked in the industry for most of the big name technology companies.
He discusses the history of A.I., the current situation involving Deep Learning, and goes on to talk about the future."We're all going to face a very challenging next fifteen or twenty years, when half of the jobs are going to be replaced by machines. Humans have never seen this scale of massive job decimation."
I just tried the Deep Music skill on Alexa. It generates AI music - which sounds pretty much as you'd expect. It's a bit repetitive, but not too bad. This is an area of Machine Learning that will get a lot better in the near future. So, my AI voice assistant can now play AI generated music at me!