AI Singapore OpenPOWER

1. AI Singapore
Anchoring deep national capabilities in AI
OPENPower and AI Workshop
11 March 2019
Laurence Liew
Director, AI Industry Innovation
AI Singapore
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2. About AI Singapore (AISG)
To anchor deep national capabilities in AI, thereby creating social and economic
impacts, grow local talent, build an AI ecosystem, and put Singapore on the world map
AI research grants
International joint
research collaborations
AI RESEARCH
AI Grand Challenges
1. Health
2. Finance
3. Urban Solutions
AI TECHNOLOGY
100 Experiments
AI Apprenticeship Programme
AI Industry workshops
Technology and Domain labs
AI INNOVATION
Program Coordinating Agencies
Funded Universities
& Research Institutions
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3. AI Research
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AI Research
Investing in scientific research for the next wave of innovations and breakthroughs
What are the future AI
technologies?
• Technical surprises that might lead to
jump in AI’s capabilities?
How can we use AI safely and
securely?
• Understanding and overcoming risks and costs of
deploying AI systems
• Designing secure AI systems
• Validation of AI systems – predictable and
explainable AI
What are the new AI advances with positive
economic and societal impacts?
• Problems and bottlenecks that are ripe for being solved
with AI
How to design AI to align to the
ethical, legal and societal principles?
• Accountability, liability issues arising from AI
• Implementing norms and values in AI systems
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Focus of AI Research
• Invent next generation AI techniques/algorithms
• Conduct High-Impact Research and tackle
important AI technical challenges
• Encourage inter-institutional collaboration
• Methodologies and algorithms to advance AI tech
• Explainable AI
• Learning from small dataset
• AI with sensemaking ability
AI RESEARCH
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6. AI Technology
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What are AI Grand Challenges?
Important issues and problems* faced by Singapore and the world,
that can be effectively addressed with AI technologies and
innovations
With long-term research goals that can bring about sectoral transformation
HEALTHCARE FINANCEURBAN SOLUTIONS
Inspiring – Impactful – Measurable
Guided by thought leaders, aligned with national priorities,
designed by researchers and domain experts
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AI In Health Grand Challenge Statement
“How can Artificial Intelligence (AI) help primary care teams stop or slow disease
progression and complication development in 3H – patients by 20% in 5 years?”
AI Technologies
& Innovations
3H : Hyperglycemia (high blood sugar), Hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol), and Hypertension (high blood
pressure)
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9. AI Innovation
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“Growing our own timber”
Industry AI Singapore
Use AI to solve business problem
Contribute manpower and datasets
Match 1:1 in kind and cash
Provide engineering expertise
Assemble AI Apprentices and Performers
Support up to $250k
Minimum Viable Product within 9 - 18 months
2 - 4 x AI Engineers trained
100 Experiments (100E) + AIAP
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11. 100
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12. Programme Sponsors: Content partners:
Hybrid classroom, online,
self-directed learning
2 Months
Back to
Industry
Start MVP Investigation and
technology requirements
7 Months
MVP Development @ 100 Experiments
Real-world AI projects
$300,000 - $500,000
Programme:
• 9-month full-time apprenticeship programme open to
SINGAPOREANS with less than 3 years of working
experience upon graduation. Limited vacancies for
SINGAPOREANS with more than 3 years of experience.
• A monthly stipend will be provided to the apprentices
• Pass the AIAP “entrance exam”
Post AIAP:
• Back to industry
• Likely to be hired by the company or agency that
sponsored the 100 Experiment
AI Apprenticeship Programme (AIAP)
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13. Programme:
• Data Scientist in Python Track + Project on DataCamp
• Weekly 1-hour online AMA sessions and 3 workshops
• Candidates who complete the program (3-months) will get:
• “Foundations in AI” Certificate
• CITREP reimbursement on course fees
Post workshop:
• 9 months subscription to DataCamp (total 12 months)
• Access to Intel AI Academy materials
• Access to AISG forums and community
Enrollment
Engineers, software
developers, technical
managers and
executives keen to
learn Python to
develop basic AI and
data applications
AI for Industry (3 months)
A 3-months hybrid online/offline AI/Data science
foundation track on DataCamp, facilitated by AI
Singapore mentors. Goal is to help participants
understand AI, and be able to program basic data
and machine learning applications in Python.
Continuous
Learning
Foundations in
AI Certificate
Programme Sponsors: Content partners:
AI for Industry (AI4I)
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14. Enrollment
Everyone
Corporates
Schools
AI for Everyone (3 hours )
Introduce participants to Artificial Intelligence and
remove the hype and myth of AI, and to
understand what is AI and be able to identify
potential use cases in their own companies and
daily lives.
Continuous
Learning
Programme:
• 3-hours workshop on “Introduction to AI”
Post workshop:
• Access to Intel AI Academy materials
• Access to AISG forums and community
Programme Sponsors: Content partners:
AI for Everyone (AI4E)
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15. Enrollment
FREE to all educators
in Singapore public
schools and
universities
DataCamp for the Classroom
Schools can tap on one of the best data science
education platform to teach data skills to the
students and make data fluency part of their
learning journey.
Continuous
Learning
Educator’s resources
• Track each of your student’s progress in detail
• Set homework using assignment and deadlines, with
automated scoring
• Integrate with common learning management system
(Sakai, Blackboard, Canvas…)
Student’s benefits
• Access to the entire course curriculum (>250 hours),
including premium courses
• Participate in leader boards and discussion forums
• Internship opportunities* with AI Singapore and gain
hands-on with real-life industry projects
Content partner:
AI for Students (AI4S)
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16. Enrollment
FREE to all primary
school educators in
Singapore public
schools
AI Foundations for Primary
Schools
Schools can make use of AI Singapore 12 hours
AI4K materials to conduct AI programming classes
in SCRATCH and Azure Cognitive Services for
Primary 4,5 and 6 students.
Continuous
Learning
Educator’s resources
• 12 hours of programming and AI materials to go from
zero to hero.
• SCRATCH based AI-environment (world’s first
implementation of SCRATCH + AI tool powered by
Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services.
Student’s benefits
• Learn to programme with SCRATCH
• Understand what is AI
• Build simple AI programmes with SCRATCH
AI for Kids (AI4K)
Programme Development Partner: Programme Sponsor:
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17. Primary Secondary Tertiary Professionals
AI for Students
(AI4S)
Announced
7 Nov 2018
~5400
AI Apprenticeship
Programme (AIAP)
Announced
Oct 2017
Target 200
1st batch 13
2nd batch 26
3rd batch 20
AI for Everyone (AI4E)
Announced
30 Aug 2018
Target 10,000
~2000+
AI for Industry (AI4I)
Announced
30 Aug 2018
Target 2,000
1st batch 420
2nd batch 305
Building the AI Talent Development Pipeline
AI for Kids
(AI4K)
1st bootcamp
2nd Feb 2019
~70
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18. THANK YOU.
www.aisingapore.org
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