Intro to AI and demonstration of Watson Analytics APIs integrated with a NAO robot.

1. IBM Watson
10.9.17/ Phil Salm
The Power of Artificial
Intelligence

2. About Your Speaker
Phil Salm
email: phil.salm@cdw.com
Twitter: @PhilSalm
• Analytics Solution Architect at CDW focused on
solutions for Healthcare and Education
• Been with CDW for 16 years
• Thesis research on developing predictive models for
identifying patients at risk for premature
readmission to hospitals (Northwestern MS in
Predictive Analytics)
• Helped customers with IBM enterprise software
solutions for the past 19 years as developer,
consultant and pre-sales resource
• Father of 3 daughters
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3. Agenda
• CDW’s Analytics Practice
• What is AI?
• IBM Cognitive Solutions
• Little ‘Dub Demo

4. CDW Analytics: UNLOCKING DATA’S POSSIBILITIES
IoT
ANALYTICS
IT
OPERATIONAL
ANALYTICS
DATA
MANAGEMENT
BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE
MACHINE
LEARNING

5. What is Artificial Intelligence?
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From The New York Times, July 8, 1958
“The Navy revealed the embryo of an electronic computer
today that it expects will be able to walk, talk, see,
write, reproduce itself an be conscious of its
existence … Dr. Frank Rosenblatt, a research psychologist
at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, Buffalo, said
Perceptrons might be fired to the planets as mechanical
space explorers”

7. Winter is Coming… the AI winter
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8. AI Spring
• At the turn of the
century, some major
breakthroughs
(Hinton)
• 2011 IBM Watson
wins on Jeopardy
• In 2016, there were
4x the number of
articles referencing
artificial intelligence
compared to 2014
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Decomposing Intelligence

10. McKinsey: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THE NEXT
DIGITAL FRONTIER?
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11. Deep Learning

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Key Ingredient to Avoid Overfitting

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Not just for video games anymore

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Sample from Range of IBM Cognitive Solutions
Embedded
ML
Watson
Analytics
Qradar with
Watson
Advisor
ML GUIs
SPSS Modeler
Watson
Explorer
Watson
Discovery
ML APIs
Watson APIs
Full ML
Data Science
Experience
PowerAI
Industry
Solutions
Watson for
Clinical Trial
Matching
Watson
Element for
Educators

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Watson APIs
Conversation
Conversation
Virtual Agent
Vision
Visual
Recognition
Speech
Speech to text
Text to speech
Empathy
Personality
Insights
Tone Analyzer
Language
Language
Translator
Natural
Language
Classifier
Discover
Natural
Language
Understanding
Knowledge
Studio
Discovery
Discovery News
Document
Conversion

16. Who am I?
Demo of IBM Watson Visual Recognition API

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Visual Recognition Demo: What’s Happening?
1. Little Dub
takes
photo and
sends to
Watson
2. Watson
receives photo
and runs it
through visual
classifier
3. Watson identifies
categories and
confidence levels
and returns results
in JSON format
4. Little Dub receives
the results, parses
them, and uses
native text to speech
to give results

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John Deere & Visual Analytics
• Spent $305 million to
acquire Blue River
Technology
• “See and spray”
technology
• Blue River claims it
can save “up to 90
percent” of the
volume of chemicals
being sprayed, while
also reducing labor
costs.

19. Paging Dr. Twitter
Demo of IBM Watson Personality Insights API
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Personality Insights Demo: What’s Happening?
1. Little Dub
retrieves
last 200
tweets.
2. Watson receives
tweets, recognizes
text, and runs it
through PI service.
3. Watson prepares
lengthy
personality profile
and returns results
in JSON format.
4. Little Dub receives
the results, parses
them, and uses
native text to speech
to give results.

21. NLP real-life example: Readmission Predictors at
Seton Healthcare
The Data They Thought Would Be Useful … Wasn’t
• Structured data not available, not accurate enough, without the unstructured data - which was
more trustworthy
What They Thought Was Causing 30 Day Readmissions … Wasn’t
• 113 possible candidate predictors expanded and changed after mining the data for hidden
insights
New Hidden Indicators Emerged … Readmissions is a Highly Predictive Model
• 18 accurate indicators or predictors
Predictor Analysis % Encounters
Structured Data
% Encounters
Unstructured Data
Ejection Fraction (LVEF) 2% 74%
Smoking Indicator 35%
(65% Accurate)
81%
(95% Accurate)
Living Arrangements <1% 73%
(100% Accurate)
Drug and Alcohol Abuse 16% 81%
Assisted Living 0% 13%
97% at 80th percentile
49% at 20th percentile

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Fear Not…

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Recommended Reading

24. THANK YOU
Come up and have Little ‘Dub
tweet a photo of you.