Kristinn R. Thórisson is Professor of Computer Science at Reykjavik University and Founding Director of the Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines, in Iceland. Having been doing AI research for 30 years, Kris has consulted for NASA, British Telecom, and HONDA Research Labs, and taught AI courses at Columbia University, Reykjavik U. and KTH. Kris and his team recently developed a new kind of self-improving self-programming AI that can learn complex tasks from scratch, such doing a TV-style interview with realtime speech and gesture. Kris is a two-time recipient of the Kurzweil Award for his work on artificial general intelligence.