A.I. in the Real World - Sussex Uni lecture March 2011

A.I. in the Real World Ian Ozsvald [email_address] March 2011 at Sussex University

War Stories - 1
SearchSpace (now Fortent.com), late 90s to date, ex-London Unis "Searchspace is the market leader in intelligent systems for Enterprise Automation"
5/10/2010 IanOzsvald.com

War Stories - 2
Mathématiques Appliquées SA (MASAGroup.com), late 90s to date, ex-French Unis
Planning (Oil, ADP, RM, Onyx)
Pilots, Robots (Gizmo!), Financial Forecasting, Game A.I.
NLP for Sentiment & Burst

War Stories - 3
Mor Consulting (6 years old), HVB Bank, PANalytical, Ambiental, Qtara
Code Farm, Jeremy Mabbit ex-Informatics, early 2000s to date, acquired by Calypso (CDOs)
Autonomy (Dr. Michael Lynch and Richard Gaunt), late 90s to date, ex-Cambridge Unis, $500mil rev.

Big Projects in A.I.?
DARPA Grand Challenge - 3 events
Netflix Prize - $1 million prize money if their Cinematch beaten by 10%
Cars, Watson
Cyc (and OpenMind) - assembling common sense knowledge, 20 yrs old
Big Dog - Biologically inspired walker
Social Ties – a People Radar

Some Things to Solve
Video Scene Search for Amazon or Netflix (beach, bangalore...) imfdb
iPhone Translator – image or voice -> Word Lens and Google Translate
Recommendation engine – Amazon's system for WikiPedia for movies?
General object recognition - art, trees?
PICK A BIG PROBLEM!

How to Start - 1
Be passionate, make a demo
Find free users, find paying users
Don't get hung-up about IP, Patents or Funding
Money is available if you have customers

How to Start - 2
Tech - AWS S3 + EC2, GPUs, Mobiles
openCV, OCR, NLTK, SciPy (audience?)
Flickr, Wikipedia, YouTube, Google Streetmap, OpenMind (audience?)
GOFAI/NEWFAI - Don't get hung-up
Prefer Agile languages (audience?)

How to Start - 3
ShowMeDo.com - boot-strapped, <£10k start-up, with Kyran Dale
Running cost £200/month, >1Tb data served, 100k+ monthly users
Learn Python Here!

How to Start - 4
Talk to those that have done it already!
£5 App event (fivepoundapp.com)
HackerSpace (BuildBrighton.com)
dotBrighton (Seb - augmented reality)
LikeMind (coffee with smart people)
OpenCoffee (funding, founders)

How to Start - 5
Just Get On With It!
Say if you'd like to meet for coffee...

[email_address]
@IanOzsvald
MorConsulting.com

A.I. in the Real World - Sussex Uni lecture March 2011

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