The future is bright

Just a quick post to say thanks to everyone who helped make this conference an especially fascinating and enjoyable experience for me. I feel I have a broader outlook on the academic community in general, as well as a great deal of excitement about the future of both human and artificial intelligence. I think this blog was a great idea for the conference and I feel honoured to have been a participant. It was also great to see how there is an interest from a diverse range of people and organizations in the broad field of Artificial Intelligence. I believe Dr. Minsky (or someone else?) said that AI is solving problems that have not been solved yet, or making computers do things which only humans could do in the past. Either of these goals is worthwhile, but I think we have to just go about our work with a great deal of respect for the past, for institutions, for experts, and for leaders. The future is a bright one, and we just need to remember "respect". (Sounds like a football mantra or something, but it could also apply to AI researchers and theorists too.)