On March 30-31 the wonderful “Linghack” organization supporting computational linguistics held their “Linghacks II” event in Silicon Valley:

https://linghacks.weebly.com/linghacks-ii.html

Steve Omohundro was invited to give the opening Keynote Address on “AI and Language: Hacking Humanity’s Greatest Invention”. His talk is available here starting at 14:20:

The slides are available here: