Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing

IBM Cloud & Cognitive
Artificial Intelligence and
Cognitive Computing
What is it? What’s new? What’s next?
Florian Georg
IBM Cloud & Cognitive Technical Leader
Keynote DataDirect IT Security Forum
20 Sept 2017

MUSK Zuckerberg
"AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of
human civilization.”
“people who [..] drum up these doomsday
scenarios -- […] I actually think it is pretty
irresponsible […] In the next five to 10 years, AI is
going to deliver so many improvements in the
quality of our lives”

Long term: Superhuman intelligence and reign of the robots?
[…] he was surprised at how
easily the bot beat a human
player, adding that it felt “a little
like [a] human, but a little like
something else.”
https://www.slashgear.com/openais-dota-2-bot-defeats-worlds-best-pro-player-12494928/
?

Today (and tomorrow): Cognitive Systems
http://www.kaaltv.com/news/ibm-has-hand-in-creating-accessible-self-driving-bus/4604924/
REASON
They can reason, grasp
underlying concepts, form
hypotheses, and infer and
extract ideas.
UNDERSTAND
Cognitive systems understand
imagery, language and other
unstructured
data like humans do.
LEARN
With each data point, interaction
and outcome, they develop and
sharpen their expertise, so
they never stop learning.
INTERACT
With abilities to see, talk and
hear, cognitive systems
interact with humans in a
natural way.
https://youtu.be/8_bi-S0XNPI

.. but haven’t we been there already?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
The A.I. Winters of the 1970s / 80s

What is it REALLY?
Statistics & Math + Data + Computing Power + X
Supervised Learning
Unsupervised Learning
Online vs. Offline
…
Machine
Learning

Supervised Learning: Decision Trees
induction from training data,
generalizes to future observations

Supervised Learning: (Deep) Neural Networks

Unsupervised Learning: k-means
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-means_clustering

Demos and Examples of
Cognitive Systems

The IBM Cloud Platform
Cloud Infrastructure
A highly scalable, security
enabled infrastructure
Data
Tools to prepare data
for cognitive
AI
Cognitive building blocks for
developers
Applications, solutions and
services
Targeted solutions for
enterprise businesses
Ingestion
Conversation
Storage Analytics Deployment Governance
Visual
Recognition
Discovery
Speech
Compare
and Comply
Document
Conversion
DLaaS
Nat Language
Understanding
Nat Language
Classifier
Tone
Analyzer
Personal
Insight
Knowledge
Query
Cloud Integration
Networking Security
Core
Enterprise
Infrastructure
Cognitive
Systems
Virtual
Servers
File
Storage
Object
Storage
Cognitive Micro-services DevOps Tooling
Watson
Oncology
Watson
Cyber
Security
Weather
IBM
Services
& Ind.
Solutions
Watson
Virtual
Agent
Watson
Explore
and
Discover
IBM Risk and
Compliance
Asset
Mgmt.
(Maximo)

http://openwhisk-darkvision.mybluemix.net/#!/

https://speech-to-text-demo.mybluemix.net/

IBM Watson for Cyber Security
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYZOIdK4o1M

Other Examples
•Predictive Maintenance
•Elderly Care
•Fake News Detection
•…

What’s new ?
• Advances in algorithms after the
“AI Winter”. (e.g. on issues like the
“vanishing gradient problem” or
“curse of dimensionality)
• Availability of (lots!) of data - IoT,
connected devices, sensor
networks, unstructured data …
• Large scale, “on-demand”
computing power à The Cloud
• Focus on supporting humans,
rather than replacing them:
Cognitive vs. “traditional” AI

What’s next ?
• AI and Cognitive will have lots of impact
on our lives
• New cross-discipline questions on
“super human intelligence” - ethics,
regulations etc.
• Space Travel !
"Runaround" (1942), Isaac Asimov

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