Revised course support for May 3rd Conference

1. "Is Artificial
Intelligence the
future of
Innovation?"
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Lee SCHLENKER
May 3, 2018

2. “The immediate
point of the fish
story is that the
most obvious,
ubiquitous,
important realities
are often the ones
that are the hardest
to see and talk
about.” —Jesse
Pacquette
What is innovation?
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3. • The French
government will
spend €1.5 billion
over five years
• to support
research in the
field
• To encourage
startups,
• To collect data
that can be used,
and shared for
research
The Villani report
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4. “The first challenge of
Artificial Intelligence Is
that of human talent” –
Emmanuel Macron
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5. What problem are
we trying to solve?
• Technology
• Health
• Politics
• Society
• Progress
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6. AI involves machines
that can perform tasks
that are characteristic
of human intelligence.
Machine learning is
“the ability to learn
without being
explicitly
programmed.”
Deep learning is one of
many approaches to
machine learning.
Calum McClelland

9. What problem are
we trying to solve?
• Technology
• Health
• Politics
• Society
• Progress
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10. “Artificial” Intelligence is
built on a foundation of
interdisciplinarity”
This means
crossing
• Mathematics,
• Social sciences,
• Technology, and
• Philosophy.
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11. Bibliography
• Thompson, N., (2018),
Emmanuel Macron Talks to
Wired about France’s AI
Strategy , Wired
• AI for Humanity, (2018), The
French strategy in the field
of artificial intelligence
• Kharchenko, N. “Artificial
Intelligence Influence,
Perspectives, and Benefits”
• Cockburn, I.M. et al., 2018,
The Impact of Artificial
Intelligence on Innovation -
NBER