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Google’s Chief Evangelist in conversation with Toby Walsh

Vint Cert with Toby Walsh

At first we called it ‘inter-networking’ but it took too long to say.

Vint Cerf

A “digital dark age” is looming unless a sophisticated regime for curating, preserving and accessing our data is established, says the ‘father of the internet’, Vint Cerf.

Google's VP and Chief Evangelist, talked with UNSW Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Toby Walsh in July 2018 to a packed auditorium at UNSW Sydney.

Watch him describe the early days of the Net like a colourful folk yarn and hear is warnings on the foreboding digital dark age.


Google's Vint Cerf in conversation with Toby Walsh was presented by UNSW Engineering and Google Australia.

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Toby Walsh

Toby Walsh (Host)

Toby Walsh is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of AI at UNSW Sydney and CSIRO Data61. He is a strong advocate for limits to ensure AI is used to improve our lives, having spoken at the UN, and to heads of state, parliamentary bodies, company boards and many other bodies on this topic. He is a Fellow of the Australia Academy of Science, and was named on the international Who's Who in AI list of influencers. He has authored three books on AI for a general audience, the most recent entitled Machines Behaving Badly: the morality of AI

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