of 8 and
since then I’m hooked in the digital
world I was involved in over 30
companies as an entrepreneur and
investor in the last years mainly the
software space and through influenced by
science fiction which I love if it’s
Gibson or hard laying or child straws
and the series like stargates I
discovered that the natural evolution of
software is artificial intelligence
someone said it could be the last
invention we do as humankind and that’s
what why I would like to speak with you
today about that AI is eating our world
and that this is something we should be
happy about artificial intelligence is
not a new concept already the Romans the
Greeks the Chinese they had a concept of
human-like machines so it is through
human history that we’re thinking about
machines who could be more like us today
we understand machines who look more
like us who think like us who see the
world like us and also it got recently
very popular in Hollywood again if it’s
gays if it’s a landmass if it’s a
hulking they all speak currently about
artificial intelligence and the reason
is three factors came together in the
last three years which are interesting
to earth the first is the increase in
processing power the second is data and
the third is progress in machine
learning um we all know that computers
used to be very very big and very slow
and very stupid and they used to fill
rooms like this rooms like this were
computers and they were just a smart
calculator just a calculator but today
we all have a supercomputer in our
pocket in our smartphone thanks to
Moore’s law which is valid for the last
50 years every 18 months a computer is
half the size half the price and double
the speed so computers are getting
faster from time to time from year to
year and this won’t stop so it’s like
your brain would get better just imagine
you would get smarter every eighteen
month what you could do with this so
computer get better this is the first
things they get smarter and faster the
second is we have more data it’s like
for us humans more data means you have
more process and thanks to the internet
25 years ago we produce every day more
the day before whatever you do on this
smartphone whatever you do offline
everything is tracked everything’s
stored whatever we do everything
especially digital we do this is
somewhere safe on stored on a server and
that is why companies like Google like
Facebook they use this huge complex
processing powers in combination with
data to make sense out of the world they
have and they use machine learning to
use all these computers and data to make
even their business models more you know
to understand better what the customers
do to make more money
just imagine what this means if
computers are getting stronger faster
and you have more data to do it so
machine learning is that deer that you
do not need to program everything yes if
you don’t use machine learning you want
to improve a computer or a pro computer
program you have to write it in the code
you run it you test it and then you have
to write the code again with machine
learning the machine is able to adapt
itself and with the machine learning
something the last years had a
breakthrough which is really interesting
and it’s called deep learning and deep
learning our neural nets and layers I
was they asked me to explain this a
little bit more so this means it’s
mimicking how the brain works and it’s
in easy words you have two points and
when the machine is doing something
right the path between two points is
getting stronger if the machine is doing
something wrong the path between two
points is getting weaker and you can
imagine it’s like you drive a car when
you’re 18 you need to learn all these
rules you go to school learn these rules
you have a driver’s they’re in German
you have to take 30 hours and more you
learn this and learn this until you get
more experiences you don’t think anymore
you you have something like experience
it’s like instinct and this is him is
about machines the more you run a
machine the better it gets and these
machines are on the step of being
cognitive machines so the machines today
using deep learning they can gather data
yes then they can run simulations your
mathematics is complex models and then
they propose actions and today you don’t
tell them anymore what they have to do
they run their own actions to execute
them they measure the results and then
they optimize so I repeat this machine’s
optimize themselves and we don’t know
any
what’s happening inside machine start
trading stocks machines drive cars
machines develop own encryptions and we
don’t know anymore how they do it within
their certain frames they decide on
themselves they improve on themselves
and they do this simulator Slee there
are companies out there who run a
machine and then they copy them eight
times and within two days they have 16
20 and more different outcomes and
versions while a human can do this only
afterwards machines do this peril so
what I want to say is we come to the
point I call this the age of narrow
artificial intelligence it’s narrow
artificial intelligence because these
machines are very very intelligent very
good in their specific trained field
training machines got cheaper and faster
and easier than ever the more processing
power.you happen the more data you have
the easier it is to train a machine and
these machines today we used to train
them we already have today machines who
we have taught to train themselves so
you don’t have to teach them that they
have to learn they know how to learn
themselves so you give them a task and
then they solve it and they solve it in
ways we can’t imagine ourselves they saw
with different and faster and maybe more
creative than we do a narrow artificial
intelligence are there already we just
don’t always see them Google is using
them to figure out what you will type in
before you type it in yes
Netflix is using narrow artificial
intelligence to decide what you should
watch before you thought about this
we all have artificial intelligences at
home
is that Sverre in your smartphone or it
is at katana from Microsoft or it’s from
Amazon echo well it’s not smart for you
but I know kids who speak with 0e every
day for a couple of hours for them this
is a real communication they don’t think
about this or this is just the machine
it’s stupid we all have seen this
self-driving cars this is a form of
narrower 53 artificial intelligence –
and there’s not only one solution
Tesla’s a solution BMW is working
solutions comedy eyes and working
solution this even more than one version
out of this then you should go with Auto
this is future but this is real and it
come we received on the cities and this
will be there and will increase there
are self driving trucks based on
artificial intelligences this is real –
it’s proven it’s just policies and
legislation takes way longer until we
see it on the road you can use
artificial intelligence almost in every
object it’s like a layer you see it or
you don’t see it it is everywhere
wherever you have a computer you can put
artificial intelligence in there and
they can do something for us that means
machines work machines work for us
that’s why we invent them we invent them
so they work for us they work for us 24
hours a day 365 days a week a year they
don’t complain they don’t want a race
they don’t go on a strike and they got
cheaper the more you use them they get
more efficient the more we use them we
use machines to do the physical work we
don’t like to do we used machines to do
the boring work we don’t like to do and
we use machines to do the thinking work
and what is the benefit for us well the
benefit for us is we have more live
insight we have more time to live we
only have in an average life 4,500 weeks
so time is and we learnt this today is
very scarce the most scarce thing we
have the only limited resources in our
life so when the machines do the work
for us we have more time to live well
more time for the important things in
life which is family which is friends
which is traveling your wife your
husband your kids it’s reading a book
it’s travel the world it’s doing
something for the community or start a
company where the machines do the work
for us we have more time to be human
however and this is the first people ask
me what is about jobs and honestly I
won’t tell you well this is you know
going to end very easy yes machines are
there and they are continuing to do the
jobs for us because we want this that’s
why we invent them it’s because they are
supposed to do the things we don’t like
to do so there is the estimation that
only in let’s say in Germany in the next
20 years five to ten million jobs will
be replaced by machines for Europe it’s
50 million we speak about hundreds
millions of jobs which would could be
replaced by machines robots and
computers over the next decades just
think about sales agents think about
customer support text drivers cab
drivers and so on this is just a small
list a compiled to ask a couple of
people what jobs could be replace and
there are a lot of jobs there the good
thing is it won’t replace you personal
right away it’s more that you will use
artificial intelligence to do more out
of your job you use artificial
intelligence and computers to leverage
what you do today but on the long run
companies just hire less people because
AI + humans is enough then let’s say 20
or 30 humans did this before so AI is
just there and supporting you it won’t
replace you right away just on the long
term we need less people to have the
same productivity and output and it’s
everywhere there when you sit in front
of the computer
yes eh I will replace you if you’re
working with people a is not there yet
you’re on the safe side and this is
something we should not be afraid of but
we need to discuss and this is something
we need to be aware of this will come
and that’s why I’m here today we need to
speak about the system what we don’t
have to work anymore yes we need to
speak up as a system which is I call the
droplets future I have this picture of a
future where we don’t have to work
anymore we only work because we want to
we only do the things which are our
passion we only do the things which we
have a drive for we get up in the
morning because we really want to do
this and it does not have to be for the
money it can be for a deeper and higher
meaning so we need to speak up of the
system how can do this I don’t have the
solution there are things we can discuss
like you know unconditional basic income
and so forth but we need to figure this
out as a society how we do this
transition from a you know a presence
where you have to work to survive to
future where this is optional and where
drop is not necessary to have a good
living and to be human for the end let’s
look a little bit back for the last
hundred fifty years for the last five
two generations life got really really
good for humans I can say that we are
living in a greatest time of human
history even we don’t see it our average
life expectancy doubled it has everyone
older than 30 here in this room yes you
can be happy to live today because only
hundred years ago you would be dead most
likely we have waving money in our
pocket our average income and wealth
increased to six hundred two thousand
percent just in the Western countries at
the same time we work less we work half
the time you used to work a hundred
years ago average working time with 80
hours today we work 35 to 40 hours in
average so we live longer
we are healthier with more money in our
pocket we can buy more things we work
less for this and this is the trend we
have this is the progress we had in the
last 150 years because we embrace
technology
jeez yes with every new thing which will
come which can be AI AGI
superintelligence nano robotics which
relatives of four we have challenges
it has challenges for you as a person
for our system we’re living and for
companies and so forth but it’s also
opportunities and they will bring us a
better life and more happy life this is
the future I’m fighting for this is the
future I think we should all fight for
and this is what I’m living for that we all achieve it thank you