StrongSteam AI at HackerNews London October 2011

StrongSteam – The AppStore for AI and Data Mining Tools HackerNewsLondon Oct 2011

Who we are
Ian Ozsvald & Kyran Dale
AI in industry, AI in academia
MorConsulting.com
Robots and SocialTies too

Much data, little meaning
Wikipedia, YouTube, Flickr, Tweets
How do we transform raw data into content?
Building the semantic web (not markup!)
Do we lack CPUs? GPUs? Storage?
What's the barrier to entry?
“ The Industrial Revolution”

Scratching our own itch
RESTful API
Optical character recognition
Image recognition
Speech recognition
License plate recognition
Arduino, SL4A
Make hacking easy & fun

Example - OCR -> Wikipedia

Python/JSON
cli = ss.StrongSteam(...)
wakehurst_set = cli.add_set(
‘ ./images’ , ‘wakehurst labels’ )
wakehurst_ocr_jobs = cli.add_jobs(wakehurst_set, ‘ocr’ )
...
job_results = cli.get_results(wakehurst_ocr_jobs)
# calc distances, link to Wikipedia
# all JSON, language agnostic

Find rectangles

Face detection

Closing
Sign up to our alpha
Tell us what you want
Hack day/workshop?
Startup Chile – off in January
Your algorithms – partner?

Thanks
Mamod steam engine to demo
Props to Richard “strong steam” Trevithick (1771-1833)
Props to @lee_tucknott for look/feel

StrongSteam AI at HackerNews London October 2011

by Ian Ozsvald on Oct 28, 2011

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