I came across an amazing video talk between Neil deGrasse Tyson and Geoffrey Hinton on YouTube. The first 30 minutes are amazing for any AI practitioner to understand the current state of AI and its potential impact on humanity.

Geoffrey Hinton is one of the pioneers of AI and has been working on it for decades. He is also one of the few people who has been warning about the potential dangers of AI for years. In this talk, he discusses the current state of AI and its potential impact on humanity. Geoffrey starts with a brief history of AI, neural net, backpropogation, etc. for the first 30 minutes. And then comes the best part on the potential impact on humanity, consiousness, singularity, etc. This is a must watch for anybody interested in the current state of AI and where it is leading, how the exponential growth of AI power has the potential to change the world (for good or bad is a question that is yet to be answered).