1. SHOULD YOU BE AFRAID OF
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?
Azeem Azhar @azeem
Schibsted Media Group

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HELLO! MY NAME IS AZEEM AZHAR
➤ Product manager at Schibsted Media Group
➤ Norwegian media & classifieds group with
operations in 29 countries & 7,000 employees
➤ Curate, Exponential View (http://azeem.io/s)
➤ @azeem on Twitter
➤ azeem@schibsted.com

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SHOULD YOU BE AFRAID OF AI? (TL;DL - NO!)
Boom or winter Accelerants Implications Actions

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WHAT IS AI?

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THE MONEY IS FLOWING
7x in
5 years

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THE BIG GUYS ARE MUSCLING IN

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THE SEVEN ACCELERANTS OF THE AI BOOM
Moore’s Law
Data explosion
Collaboration
Software eats
the world
APIs &
microservices
Open source
Lock-in

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WE CREATE MORE TRANSISTORS EVERY 0.1S THAN THERE ARE STARS IN THE GALAXY

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APPLE WATCH MORE POWERFUL THAN A CRAY 2
Fits in a room
1.6Gflops
1985
Fits in a pocket
1.9Gflops
2010
Fits on a wrist
>3Gflops
2015

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GPUS HAVE BEEN A STEP-CHANGE TECHNOLOGY
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/inference-next-step-gpu-accelerated-deep-learning/

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44ZB OF DATA BY 2020, 44X IN 11 YEARS
Sources: IDC, Azeem Azhar analysis
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Data volume

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COLLABORATION

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SOFTWARE EATS THE WORLD

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APIS & MICROSERVICES

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OPEN SOURCE STRATEGIES FROM MAJORS
Major global internet companies
release internal machine
learning & AI frameworks
G, M & F: Cognitively-rich API
services available too

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THE AI LOCK-IN LOOP
Video games
Search
Mobile UI
Defense
CRM
Finance
Health

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Stuff is getting better

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BETTER THAN HUMAN: OBJECT DETECTION IN IMAGES
Source: Imagenet / https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/mocha-jl-deep-learning-julia/

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BETTER THAN HUMAN: WIDE RANGE OF VIDEO GAMES
(Better at action oriented than exploration oriented games)

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Patrick Rhodes: http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/feature/8791241/Artificial-Intelligence-Solving-the-Chin
Room-Argument.html
BETTER THAN HUMAN: CHESS

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BETTER THAN HUMAN: GO
Alpha Go
1920 CPU
280 GPU

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GOOD AS HUMAN: VERBAL IQ

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BETTER THAN HUMAN: SUTURING INTESTINAL TISSUE
Source http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/
robotics/medical-robots/autonomous-robot-
surgeon-bests-human-surgeons-in-world-first

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BETTER THAN HUMAN: PREDICTIONS & BETTING
Predicted top 4 finishers of
2016 Kentucky Derby on May
8th.
540-1 odds.
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/swarm-ai-predicts-the-2016-kentucky-derby/

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APPROACHING HUMAN: VISUAL Q&A
https://avisingh599.github.io/deeplearning/visual-qa/

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2: APPLICATIONS ARE GETTING BETTER
Better foundational blocks
NLP
CV
µSVC
Data Eng
APIs Data Quality
Integrated applications
Customer service
Querying
Legal
Engineering

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LAWYERS, DRIVERS, PAS, JOURNALISTS
EMMA
Q&A; discovery; precedent detection based on IBM Watson
Autonomous vehicles; networked learning system
Autonomous writing tool
NLP-rich scheduling and calendaring assistant

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IMPLICATIONS FOR TECH
BUSINESSES

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PLAY OR PRAY
PLAY
BUILD A DATA MOAT
SEMANTICALLY SENSIBLE
INTERFACES
KEEP THE HUMAN IN THE LOOP
PROCESSES NOT ONESHOT

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HOW WILL YOU BUILD YOUR DATA MOAT?
BUILD A
DATA
MOAT
CORE ALGORITHMS /
FRAMEWORKS ARE IN
OPEN SOURCE
UNIQUR AI NEEDS
UNIQUE DATA
BUILD A DATA
ACQUISITION STRATEGY

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HOW WILL YOU ENSURE COHERENT SEMANTICS IN EXPOSED INTERFACES?
CLEAN
APIS
EASIER TO INTEGRATE IN
OTHER INTELLIGENT
SYSTEMS
EASIER TO OPTIMISE
NARROW AI

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KEEP THE HUMAN IN THE LOOP
HUMANS
NEEDED
ONGOING TRAINING
LAST-MILE
RISK MANAGEMENT

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BUILD THE RIGHT PROCESSES
HUMANS
NEEDED
ONGOING TRAINING
INVESTMENT
UNDERSTAND YOUR
TRADEOFFS
HOW TO SECURE BETTER
DATA

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SHOULD YOU BE SCARED OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?
➤ Huge opportunities to build better products &
reach new markets
➤ Competitive threat if you do not innovate
➤ Expensive and requires internal capability
building (so hard)
➤ Unlikely to end humanity right in near future.

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YOUR VIEW?

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Carpe diem!
Azeem Azhar @azeem
Schibsted Media Group