This TED Talk features AI expert Stuart Russell recorded live at TED-2017.

This is Lisa Dahl.

Lisa Dahl is one of the world's greatest go players,

and he's having what my friends in Silicon Valley call a holy cow moment,

a moment where we realize that AI is actually progressing a lot faster than we expected.

So humans have lost on the go board. What about the real world? Well, the real world is much bigger, much more complicated than the go board.

It's a lot less visible, but it's still a decision problem.

And if we think about some of the technologies that are coming down the pike,

so Nariko mentioned that reading is not yet happening in machines, at least

with understanding, but that will happen. And when that happens, very soon afterwards, machines

will have read everything that the human race has ever written. And that will enable machines,

along with the ability to look further ahead than humans can,

as we've already seen in Go.

If they also have access to more information, they'll be able to make better decisions in the real world than we can.

So is that a good thing?

Well, I hope so. Our entire civilization, everything that we value is based on our

intelligence. And if we had access to a lot more intelligence, then there's really no limit

to what the human race can do.

And I think this could be, as some people have described it,

the biggest event in human history.

So why are people saying things like this,

that AI might spell the end of the human race?

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