Learning through AI’s winters and springs: unexpected truths on the road to AGI

After decades of steady progress and occasional setbacks, the field of AI now finds itself at an inflection point. AI products have exploded into the mainstream, we've yet to hit the ceiling of scaling dividends, and the community is asking itself what comes next. In this talk, Raia will draw on her 20 years experience as an AI researcher and AI leader to examine how our assumptions about the path to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) have evolved over time, and to explore the unexpected truths that have emerged along the way. From reinforcement learning to distributed architectures and the potential of neural networks to revolutionize scientific domains, Raia argues that embracing lessons from the past offers valuable insights for AI's future research roadmap.