I will first survey how deep learning has disrupted speech and language processing industries since 2009. Then I will draw connections between the techniques for modeling speech and language and those for financial markets. Finally, I will address three unique technical challenges to financial investment.
Kai-Fu Lee at AI Frontiers : The Era of Artificial IntelligenceAI Frontiers
In this talk, I will talk about the four waves of Artificial Intelligence (AI) , and how AI will permeate every part of our lives in the next decade. I will also talk about how this will be different from previous technology revolutions -- it will be faster and be driven by not one superpower, but two (US and China). AI will add $16 trillion to our global GDP, but also cause many challenges that will be hard to solve. I will talk in particular about AI replacing routine jobs -- the consequences, the proposed solutions that don't work (such as UBI), and end with a blueprint of co-existence between humans and AI.
AI Happy Hour - Dr. Kai-Fu Lee - The Golden age of Artificial IntelligenceRicky Wong
New breakthroughs in machine learning has created two set of opportunities in artificial intelligence.
On one hand, we're seeing a tidal wave of startups in fields such as robotics, autonomous vehicles, image recognition, and speech / NLP. Separately, we're also finding AI startups leveraging big-data and solving problems in traditional, but data rich, industries (e.g. finance, retail, medical, education, etc..) and in variety of use-cases (e.g. sales, marketing, and productivity).
At Sinovation Ventures, we see China as a great platform for Artificial Intelligence to take off. China has the unique set of conditions such as large amount of untapped data and deep talent pool of engineers and scientists. As a global investment firm, we see many opportunities for US and China to partner together in the golden age of artificial intelligence.
We believe that AI will be a force multiplier on technological progress in our increasingly digital, data-driven world. This is because everything around us today, ranging from culture to consumer products, is a product of intelligence.
In this report, we set out to capture a snapshot of the exponential progress in AI with a focus on developments in the past 12 months. Consider this report as a compilation of the most interesting things we’ve seen that seeks to trigger an informed conversation about the state of AI and its implication for the future. This edition builds on the inaugural State of AI Report 2018, which can be found here.
We consider the following key dimensions in our report:
- Research: Technology breakthroughs and their capabilities.
- Talent: Supply, demand and concentration of talent working in the field.
- Industry: Large platforms, financings and areas of application for AI-driven innovation today and tomorrow.
- China: Large platforms, financings and areas of application for AI-driven innovation today and tomorrow.
- Politics: Public opinion of AI, economic implications and the emerging geopolitics of AI.
Collaboratively produced in East London, UK by:
- Nathan Benaich, Founder of Air Street Capital (www.airstreet.com) and RAAIS (www.raais.co).
- Ian Hogarth, Visiting Professor at UCL's IIPP (https://www.twitter.com/IIPP_UCL) and angel investor.
5 Important Artificial Intelligence Predictions (For 2019) Everyone Should ReadBernard Marr
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and deep learning have made huge strides in 2018. In this post we look at some of the key AI predictions for 2019, where is will be used, how it will make the biggest impact, as well as the key challenges we have to address.
Kai-Fu Lee at AI Frontiers : The Era of Artificial IntelligenceAI Frontiers
In this talk, I will talk about the four waves of Artificial Intelligence (AI) , and how AI will permeate every part of our lives in the next decade. I will also talk about how this will be different from previous technology revolutions -- it will be faster and be driven by not one superpower, but two (US and China). AI will add $16 trillion to our global GDP, but also cause many challenges that will be hard to solve. I will talk in particular about AI replacing routine jobs -- the consequences, the proposed solutions that don't work (such as UBI), and end with a blueprint of co-existence between humans and AI.
AI Happy Hour - Dr. Kai-Fu Lee - The Golden age of Artificial IntelligenceRicky Wong
New breakthroughs in machine learning has created two set of opportunities in artificial intelligence.
On one hand, we're seeing a tidal wave of startups in fields such as robotics, autonomous vehicles, image recognition, and speech / NLP. Separately, we're also finding AI startups leveraging big-data and solving problems in traditional, but data rich, industries (e.g. finance, retail, medical, education, etc..) and in variety of use-cases (e.g. sales, marketing, and productivity).
At Sinovation Ventures, we see China as a great platform for Artificial Intelligence to take off. China has the unique set of conditions such as large amount of untapped data and deep talent pool of engineers and scientists. As a global investment firm, we see many opportunities for US and China to partner together in the golden age of artificial intelligence.
We believe that AI will be a force multiplier on technological progress in our increasingly digital, data-driven world. This is because everything around us today, ranging from culture to consumer products, is a product of intelligence.
In this report, we set out to capture a snapshot of the exponential progress in AI with a focus on developments in the past 12 months. Consider this report as a compilation of the most interesting things we’ve seen that seeks to trigger an informed conversation about the state of AI and its implication for the future. This edition builds on the inaugural State of AI Report 2018, which can be found here.
We consider the following key dimensions in our report:
- Research: Technology breakthroughs and their capabilities.
- Talent: Supply, demand and concentration of talent working in the field.
- Industry: Large platforms, financings and areas of application for AI-driven innovation today and tomorrow.
- China: Large platforms, financings and areas of application for AI-driven innovation today and tomorrow.
- Politics: Public opinion of AI, economic implications and the emerging geopolitics of AI.
Collaboratively produced in East London, UK by:
- Nathan Benaich, Founder of Air Street Capital (www.airstreet.com) and RAAIS (www.raais.co).
- Ian Hogarth, Visiting Professor at UCL's IIPP (https://www.twitter.com/IIPP_UCL) and angel investor.
5 Important Artificial Intelligence Predictions (For 2019) Everyone Should ReadBernard Marr
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and deep learning have made huge strides in 2018. In this post we look at some of the key AI predictions for 2019, where is will be used, how it will make the biggest impact, as well as the key challenges we have to address.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) will create $13 trillion in value by 2030, according to McKinsey. That's a pretty good reason to take a closer look at the AI market and see what's under the hood. And that's exactly what I did in the Enterprise VC: 2019 AI Market Review deck.
Ashok Srivastava at AI Frontiers : Using AI to Solve Complex Economic ProblemsAI Frontiers
Nearly half of all small businesses fail within their first 5 years. However, AI-driven solutions can help solve complex economic problems for consumers and small businesses like missed bill payments, insufficient capital, overinvestment in fixed assets, and more.
Ashok Srivastava discusses technology's role in solving economic problems and details how Intuit is using its unrivaled financial dataset to power prosperity around the world. Leveraging technology enablers like deep learning, natural language processing, and automated reasoning and combining with a delightful end-user experience and sophisticated UX, Intuit is using technology to help its users have more confidence in their financial management.
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee's Talk on Innovation with Chinese characteristics. Videos
(Part 1) https://freeflowapp.com/v/et97qv (Part 2) https://freeflowapp.com/v/5uyqyg
US venture arm, www.ideabulb.vc
China venture arm, www.chuangxin.com
More on Kai-Fu Lee,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai-Fu_Lee
The Challenges and Opportunities of AI for the Indian EconomyDaniel Faggella
A presentation I gave to the KV Management Institute in India, based on our research on the Indian AI ecosystem (https://emerj.com/ai-market-research/artificial-intelligence-in-india/).
Solve for X with AI: a VC view of the Machine Learning & AI landscapeEd Fernandez
What you'll get from this deck
1. The M&A race for AI: by the numbers
2. Watch out! hype ahead: definitions & disclaimers
3. Machine Learning drivers: why is Machine Learning a ‘thing’ now (vs before)
4. Venture Capital: forming an industry, the AI/ML landscape
5. The One Hundred (+13) AI startups to watch in the Enterprise
6. The great Enterprise pivot: applying Machine Learning at scale
7. - where to go next -
Impact of Artificial Intelligence in IT IndustryAnand SFJ
https://sfjbstraining.com/product/artificial-intelligence-course
Artificial Intelligence transforms traditional computer methods but also has an impact on various industries. Software which makes Artificial Intelligence relatively more important in this sector.
Artificial intelligence (AI) currently being used by insurance companies has failed to remove gender bias from the profession’s claims, underwriting and marketing processes.
A Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) report tells insurers they must tackle these gender biases. The report found that the datasets used to train the algorithms which support AI systems are rooted in outdated gender concepts. Algorithms learn by being trained on historic data but the report notes more and more of that data is now unstructured, coming from text, audio, video and sensors.
Yet the report warns embedded in that historic data are decisions based upon historic biases, particularly around gender. The report concluded insurance firms need to prepare a structured response to this issue, starting with visible leadership on tackling gender bias in AI.
The future of artificial intelligence in manufacturing industriesusmsystems
For large industries such as gaming, banking, retail, commerce, and government. AI is widely used and slow in the manufacturing sector, facilitating industrial automation. AI-powered machines show an easy path to the future by providing some benefits — providing new opportunities, increasing production capacity and bringing machine technology closer to human interaction.
A brief look inside private investment and patent trends for artificial intelligence. Presented at Fujitsu Labs of America's 9th Annual Technology Symposium. June 24, 2015.
Artificial Intelligence: investment trends and applications, H1 2016Russia.AI
The presentation explores the current state of investing in AI, including its industrial split, and provides a detailed outlook on AI applications in Healthcare, Transportation and Industrial sectors.
The Impact of Robots and Automation on the Future of EmploymentNabeel Amanat
Summarizing the conference attended in Gulf Hotel, Bahrain on 14th and 15th of march 2018, organized by Polytechnic University Bahrain
Conclusion: The conclusion for this conference was to adapt to changes as per the change in the environment and enhancing innovated technology, software skills to your profile.
One example,
Dr. Ihsan Taie (Chief Technologist O&G Network Integrity R&D Division Saudi Aramco)
PHD in Chemicals but developed a department in Aramco related to IT where he hired individual with different specialization in IT field to create and develop robots to reduce risk and maintenance cost
Still, consider The Terminator combined with The Matrix, also robotic process robotization must be the state when the bias rise to rule humankind with brutal power If device literacy seems like the origin of a grim dystopian fate. Fortunately, robotic process robotization (RPA) includes nothing except perhaps for the performance part. There aren’t indeed any robots included in this robotization software.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) will create $13 trillion in value by 2030, according to McKinsey. That's a pretty good reason to take a closer look at the AI market and see what's under the hood. And that's exactly what I did in the Enterprise VC: 2019 AI Market Review deck.
Ashok Srivastava at AI Frontiers : Using AI to Solve Complex Economic ProblemsAI Frontiers
Nearly half of all small businesses fail within their first 5 years. However, AI-driven solutions can help solve complex economic problems for consumers and small businesses like missed bill payments, insufficient capital, overinvestment in fixed assets, and more.
Ashok Srivastava discusses technology's role in solving economic problems and details how Intuit is using its unrivaled financial dataset to power prosperity around the world. Leveraging technology enablers like deep learning, natural language processing, and automated reasoning and combining with a delightful end-user experience and sophisticated UX, Intuit is using technology to help its users have more confidence in their financial management.
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee's Talk on Innovation with Chinese characteristics. Videos
(Part 1) https://freeflowapp.com/v/et97qv (Part 2) https://freeflowapp.com/v/5uyqyg
US venture arm, www.ideabulb.vc
China venture arm, www.chuangxin.com
More on Kai-Fu Lee,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai-Fu_Lee
The Challenges and Opportunities of AI for the Indian EconomyDaniel Faggella
A presentation I gave to the KV Management Institute in India, based on our research on the Indian AI ecosystem (https://emerj.com/ai-market-research/artificial-intelligence-in-india/).
Solve for X with AI: a VC view of the Machine Learning & AI landscapeEd Fernandez
What you'll get from this deck
1. The M&A race for AI: by the numbers
2. Watch out! hype ahead: definitions & disclaimers
3. Machine Learning drivers: why is Machine Learning a ‘thing’ now (vs before)
4. Venture Capital: forming an industry, the AI/ML landscape
5. The One Hundred (+13) AI startups to watch in the Enterprise
6. The great Enterprise pivot: applying Machine Learning at scale
7. - where to go next -
Impact of Artificial Intelligence in IT IndustryAnand SFJ
https://sfjbstraining.com/product/artificial-intelligence-course
Artificial Intelligence transforms traditional computer methods but also has an impact on various industries. Software which makes Artificial Intelligence relatively more important in this sector.
Artificial intelligence (AI) currently being used by insurance companies has failed to remove gender bias from the profession’s claims, underwriting and marketing processes.
A Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) report tells insurers they must tackle these gender biases. The report found that the datasets used to train the algorithms which support AI systems are rooted in outdated gender concepts. Algorithms learn by being trained on historic data but the report notes more and more of that data is now unstructured, coming from text, audio, video and sensors.
Yet the report warns embedded in that historic data are decisions based upon historic biases, particularly around gender. The report concluded insurance firms need to prepare a structured response to this issue, starting with visible leadership on tackling gender bias in AI.
The future of artificial intelligence in manufacturing industriesusmsystems
For large industries such as gaming, banking, retail, commerce, and government. AI is widely used and slow in the manufacturing sector, facilitating industrial automation. AI-powered machines show an easy path to the future by providing some benefits — providing new opportunities, increasing production capacity and bringing machine technology closer to human interaction.
A brief look inside private investment and patent trends for artificial intelligence. Presented at Fujitsu Labs of America's 9th Annual Technology Symposium. June 24, 2015.
Artificial Intelligence: investment trends and applications, H1 2016Russia.AI
The presentation explores the current state of investing in AI, including its industrial split, and provides a detailed outlook on AI applications in Healthcare, Transportation and Industrial sectors.
The Impact of Robots and Automation on the Future of EmploymentNabeel Amanat
Summarizing the conference attended in Gulf Hotel, Bahrain on 14th and 15th of march 2018, organized by Polytechnic University Bahrain
Conclusion: The conclusion for this conference was to adapt to changes as per the change in the environment and enhancing innovated technology, software skills to your profile.
One example,
Dr. Ihsan Taie (Chief Technologist O&G Network Integrity R&D Division Saudi Aramco)
PHD in Chemicals but developed a department in Aramco related to IT where he hired individual with different specialization in IT field to create and develop robots to reduce risk and maintenance cost
Still, consider The Terminator combined with The Matrix, also robotic process robotization must be the state when the bias rise to rule humankind with brutal power If device literacy seems like the origin of a grim dystopian fate. Fortunately, robotic process robotization (RPA) includes nothing except perhaps for the performance part. There aren’t indeed any robots included in this robotization software.
State of AI Report 2023 - ONLINE presentationssuser2750ef
State of AI Report 2023 - ONLINE.pptx
When conducting a PEST analysis for the Syrian conflict, it's important to consider the political, economic, socio-cultural, and technological factors that have influenced and continue to impact the situation in Syria. Here's a high-level overview of a PEST analysis for the Syrian conflict:
1. Political Factors:
- Government Instability: Ongoing civil war and conflict have led to political instability and a complex power struggle between various factions and international players.
- Foreign Intervention: Involvement of external powers and regional actors has exacerbated the conflict and added geopolitical complexities to the situation.
- International Relations: Relations with global powers like the United States, Russia, and regional players like Iran and Turkey significantly impact the conflict dynamics.
2. Economic Factors:
- Humanitarian Crisis: The conflict has resulted in a severe humanitarian crisis, causing widespread displacement, destruction of infrastructure, and economic decline.
- Sanctions and Trade Barriers: International sanctions and disrupted trade have further worsened the economic situation in Syria, affecting the livelihoods of the population.
- Resource Depletion: Conflict-driven resource depletion, including loss of agricultural lands and disruption of industries, has weakened the economy.
3. Socio-cultural Factors:
- Civilian Suffering: The conflict has led to a significant loss of life, displacement of populations, and severe trauma among civilians, impacting social cohesion and community structures.
- Ethnic and Religious Divisions: Deep-seated ethnic and religious divisions have fueled the conflict, leading to sectarian tensions and societal fragmentation.
- Refugee Crisis: The conflict has triggered a massive refugee crisis, with millions of Syrians seeking asylum in neighboring countries and beyond, straining regional stability.
4. Technological Factors:
- Communication and Propaganda: Technology, including social media, has been used for communication, mobilization, and spreading propaganda by various actors in the conflict.
- Warfare Technology: Advancements in warfare technology and the use of drones, cyber warfare, and other advanced weaponry have transformed the nature of conflict in Syria.
- Cybersecurity Concerns: The conflict has also raised concerns about cybersecurity threats, misinformation campaigns, and digital vulnerabilities in the region.
This analysis provides a broad understanding of the multifaceted nature of the Syrian conflict, highlighting the diverse factors at play and the complex challenges facing Syria and the international community.
Deep Learning With Apache MXNet On Video by Ben Taylor @ ziff.aiApache MXNet
This talk will go over using Apache MXNet on video streams such as security footage from Ring, or live XBOX video data to perform inference and indexing. This can be used to classify video events, detect anomalies in normal behavior, and search. This talk will focus on using FFMPEG for feeding Apache MXNet models for fast inference throughput and performance. This talk will also discuss the difference between frame level inference, and frame buffer inference (comprehending a temporal video event).
Links to videos on the slides:
IntelAct: Winner, Visual Doom AI Competition, Full Deathmatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=947bSUtuSQ0
GPU assisted call of duty processing, prep for AI auto-play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTXOYzSC_ZE
Presented at https://www.meetup.com/deep-learning-with-mxnet/events/258901722/
Top 10 tredning technologies to learn in 2021Lokesh Agarwal
In this world of digitalization, technologies are expanding rapidly. As the world foremost tech news contributor, it is the duty of us to keep everyone updated with the newest trends of the top 10 trending technologies in 2021. Technology and programming language are so important in day to day lifestyle to make the livelihood more facile. These computer scientists and professionals are regularly making the bests out of anything. Technology has taken a face of more productiveness and give the best to the nation. In the present scenario, everything is done through the technical process, you don’t have to bother about doing work, everything will be done automatically. In this article, some important technologies which are new in the market are explained according to the career preferences. So let’s have a look into the top 10 trending technologies in2021 and its impression in the coming future.
Foundation models represent formidable tools that have transformed the realms of AI and NLP. They form the core of diverse applications, empowering developers and researchers to enhance existing language understanding and generation capabilities.
Explore the transformative power of generative AI in our latest E42 Blog post, diving deep into its capabilities for enterprise-level process automation. From explaining the core principles of generative AI, to uncovering insights into the crucial role played by on-premises Large Language Models (LLMs) in facilitating secure and compliant digital transformations across industry verticals—the article also provides a glimpse into the future of AI, where multimodal enhancements and breakthroughs in bias mitigation promise to reshape the landscape of process automation.
For this project, we had to conduct research on a topic that was seen as a relevant area of study in Enterprise Systems and how it will be applicable in the future.
We chose to study the effects artificial intelligence will have on CRM systems. To view our findings, you can view the video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe55c60QPwY&t=9s
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a multidisciplinary field of science and engineering whose goal is to create intelligent machines.
We believe that AI will be a force multiplier on technological progress in our increasingly digital, data-driven world. This is because everything around us today, ranging from culture to consumer products, is a product of intelligence.
The State of AI Report is now in its sixth year. Consider this report as a compilation of the most interesting things we’ve seen with a goal of triggering an informed conversation about the state of AI and its implication for the future.
We consider the following key dimensions in our report:
Research: Technology breakthroughs and their capabilities.
Industry: Areas of commercial application for AI and its business impact.
Politics: Regulation of AI, its economic implications and the evolving geopolitics of AI.
Safety: Identifying and mitigating catastrophic risks that highly-capable future AI systems could pose to us.
Predictions: What we believe will happen in the next 12 months and a 2022 performance review to keep us honest.
Produced by Nathan Benaich and Air Street Capital team
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, such as natural language processing (NLP), have been around for some time, and more recently there has been much hype surrounded the potential of combining AI with Machine Learning (ML) for decision making. But has it met the challenge? This webinar reviews what NLP is, the role NLP plays in machine learning approaches, such as deep learning, and some real-world use cases for application to life sciences and healthcare to improve patient outcomes.
My team investigated closed vs. open systems of innovation through the lens of a particular technology: Artificial Intelligence. I took a pretty large risk in taking such a deep mathematical tone in the beginning, but think I did well to keep it accessible and relevant.
Smart Data Webinar: A Roadmap for Deploying Modern AI in BusinessDATAVERSITY
Adopting elements of modern AI and cognitive computing - including advanced natural language processing, natural interface technologies such as gesture and emotion-recognition, and machine learning - is rapidly becoming a necessity for new applications. As people in all industries are exposed to better, more personalized and responsive experiences with software, they will begin to demand more from every system they use. For product strategists and developers, the issue is not whether to consider modern AI, the issue is how to do so most effectively.
Webinar participants will learn:
•How to classify and map application attributes to AI technologies and tools; including data attributes, end-user attributes, and context attributes such as weather and location
•How to prioritize applications in an existing portfolio for AI-enhancements, and
•How to assess organizational readiness for leveraging AI
World of Watson 2016 - Artificial Intelligence ResearchKeith Redman
Have you ever noticed that all the movies made about the topic of Artificial Intelligence portray the doom of human kind and the hero or heroine’s success at averting it? Hopefully we never truly get to that point. However, if the inner geek in you is interested in checking out what IBM research is working on today, check out these sessions.
Divya Jain at AI Frontiers : Video SummarizationAI Frontiers
As video content is becoming mainstream, video summarization is becoming a hot research topic in academia and industry. Video thumbnail generation and summarization has been worked on for years, but deep learning and reinforcement learning is changing the landscape and emerging as the winner for optimal frame selection. Recent advances in GANs are improving the quality, aesthetics and relevancy of the frames to represent the original videos. Come join this session to get an understanding of various challenges and emerging solutions around video summarization.
Training at AI Frontiers 2018 - LaiOffer Data Session: How Spark Speedup AI AI Frontiers
Topic: How to use big data to enhance AI
Outline:
1. Spark ETL
Spark SQL
Spark Streaming
2. Spark ML
Spark ML pipeline
Distributed model tuning
Spark ML model and data lineage management
3. Spark XGboost
XGboost introduction
XGboost with Spark
XGboost with GPU
4. Spark Deep Learning pipeline
Transfer learning
Build Spark ML pipeline with TensorFlow
Model selection on distributed TF model
Training at AI Frontiers 2018 - Ni Lao: Weakly Supervised Natural Language Un...AI Frontiers
In this tutorial I will introduce recent work in applying weak supervision and reinforcement learning to Questions Answering (QA) systems. Specifically we discuss the semantic parsing task for which natural language queries are converted to computation steps on knowledge graphs or data tables and produce the expected answers. State-of-the-art results can be achieved by novel memory structure for sequence models and improvements in reinforcement learning algorithms. Related code and experiment setup can be found at https://github.com/crazydonkey200/neural-symbolic-machines. Related paper: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=SyK00v5xx.
Training at AI Frontiers 2018 - Udacity: Enhancing NLP with Deep Neural NetworksAI Frontiers
Instructor: Mat Leonard
Outline
1. Text Processing
Using Python + NLTK
Cleaning
Normalization
Tokenization
Part-of-speech Tagging
Stemming and Lemmatization
2. Feature Extraction
Bag of Words
TF-IDF
Word Embeddings
Word2Vec
GloVe
3. Topic Modeling
Latent Variables
Beta and Dirichlet Distributions
Laten Dirichlet Allocation
4. NLP with Deep Learning
Neural Networks
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)
Word Embeddings
Sentiment Analysis with RNNs
Training at AI Frontiers 2018 - Lukasz Kaiser: Sequence to Sequence Learning ...AI Frontiers
Sequence to sequence learning is a powerful way to train deep networks for machine translation, various NLP tasks, but also image generation and recently video and music generation. We will give a hands-on tutorial showing how to use the open-source Tensor2Tensor library to train state-of-the-art models for translation, image generation, and a task of your choice!
Percy Liang at AI Frontiers : Pushing the Limits of Machine LearningAI Frontiers
In recent years, machine learning has undoubtedly been hugely successful in driving progress in AI applications. However, as we will explore in this talk, even state-of-the-art systems have "blind spots" which make them generalize poorly out of domain and render them vulnerable to adversarial examples. We then suggest that more unsupervised learning settings can encourage the development of more robust systems. We show positive results on two tasks: (i) text style and attribute transfer, the task of converting a sentence with one attribute (e.g., sentiment) to one with another; and (ii) solving SAT instances (classical problems requiring logical reasoning) using end-to-end neural networks.
Ilya Sutskever at AI Frontiers : Progress towards the OpenAI missionAI Frontiers
I will present several advances in deep learning from OpenAI. First, I will present OpenAI Five, a neural network that learned to play on par with some of the strongest professional Dota 2 teams in the world in an 18-hero version of the game. Next, I will present Dactyl, a human-like robot hand trained entirely in simulation with reinforcement learning that has achieved unprecedented dexterity on a physical robot. I will also present our results on unsupervised learning in language, that show that pre-training and finetuning can achieve a significant improvement over state of the art. Finally, I will present an overview of the historical progress in the field.
Mario Munich at AI Frontiers : Consumer robotics: embedding affordable AI in ...AI Frontiers
The availability of affordable electronics components, powerful embedded microprocessors, and ubiquitous internet access and WiFi in the household has enabled a new generation of connected consumer robots. In 2015, iRobot launched the Roomba 980, introducing intelligent visual navigation to its successful line of vacuum cleaning robots. In 2018, iRobot launched the Roomba i7, equipped with the latest mapping and navigation technology that provides spatial information to the broader ecosystem of connected devices in the home. In this talk, I will describe the challenges and the potential of introducing consumer robots capable of developing spatial context by exploring the physical space of the home, and I will elaborate on the impact of AI in the future of robotics applications. Moreover, I will describe our vision of the Smart Home, an AI-powered home that maintains itself and magically just does the right thing in anticipation of occupant needs. This home will be built on an ecosystem of connected and coordinated robots, sensors, and devices that provides the occupants with a high quality of life by seamlessly responding to the needs of daily living – from comfort to convenience to security to efficiency.
Anima Anandkumar at AI Frontiers : Modern ML : Deep, distributed, Multi-dimen...AI Frontiers
As the data and models scale, it becomes necessary to have multiple processing units for both training and inference. SignSGD is a gradient compression algorithm that only transmits the sign of the stochastic gradients during distributed training. This algorithm uses 32 times less communication per iteration than distributed SGD. We show that signSGD obtains free lunch both in theory and practice: no loss in accuracy while yielding speedups. Pushing the current boundaries of deep learning also requires using multiple dimensions and modalities. These can be encoded into tensors, which are natural extensions of matrices. These functionalities are available in the Tensorly package with multiple backend interfaces for large-scale deep learning.
Sumit Gupta at AI Frontiers : AI for EnterpriseAI Frontiers
The use of AI for voice search and image recognition is talked about often. Enterprises, however, have different challenges and requirements. In this talk, we will focus on talking about use cases in the enterprise and challenges in building out AI solutions. We will talk about how an Auto-machine learning software for videos and images called PowerAI Vision enables quick AI model training & deployment for various enterprise use cases.
Yuandong Tian at AI Frontiers : Planning in Reinforcement LearningAI Frontiers
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has made strong progress in many tasks, such as board games, robotics, navigation, neural architecture search, etc. I will present our recent open-sourced DRL frameworks to facilitate game research and development. Our framework is scalable so we can can reproduce AlphaGoZero and AlphaZero using 2000 GPUs, achieving super-human performance of Go AI that beats 4 top-30 professional players. We also show usability of our platform by training agents in real-time strategy games, and show interesting behaviors with a small amount of resource.
Alex Ermolaev at AI Frontiers : Major Applications of AI in HealthcareAI Frontiers
The latest AI advances have the potential to massively improve our health and well being. However, most of the work is yet to be done. In this talk, we will explore the most important opportunities for AI in healthcare. For example, we will explore how AI can diagnose major life-threatening conditions even before those conditions emerge. We will talk about AI ability to recommend dramatically more effective and less harmful treatment plans based on AI understanding of patient's medical history and current conditions. Finally, we will talk about AI role in making our healthcare system effective and affordable for everyone.
Long Lin at AI Frontiers : AI in GamingAI Frontiers
Games have been leveraging AI since the 1950s, when people built a rules-based AI engine that played tic-tac-toe. With technological advances over the years, AI has become increasingly popular and widely used in the gaming industry. The typical characteristics of games and game development makes them an ideal playground for practicing and implementing AI techniques, especially deep learning and reinforcement learning. Most games are well scoped; it is relatively easy to generate and use the data; and states/actions/rewards are relatively clear. In this talk, I will show a couple of use cases where ML/AI helps in-game development and enhances player experience. Examples include AI agents playing game and services that provide personalized experience to players.
Melissa Goldman at AI Frontiers : AI & FinanceAI Frontiers
AI in finance is having wide-ranging impact and solving some of the most critical societal problems. The talk gives overview of the opportunities of applying AI in finance with specific examples and highlights some of the unique challenges financial services firms face in deploying AI at scale.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
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Li Deng at AI Frontiers : From Modeling Speech/Language to Modeling Financial Markets
1. AI Frontiers Conference, San Jose Convention Center, Nov. 9-11, 2018
From Modeling Speech/Language to Modeling Financial
Markets
Li Deng, Chief AI Officer
November 9, 2018
2. Outline Of The Main Topics
1Will AI transform the financial
markets?
Speech
Computer vision
NLP
Robotics
…
…
Finance
2Three technical challenges
unique to financial investment
industry
3Other constraints in applying AI
to financial investment
management
3. Will AI Transform The Financial Markets?
What can we learn from successful AI applications in other industries:
AI disrupting speech industry (2009-present)
– (Small) similarities to finance industry
– (Large) differences from finance industry
AI disrupting computer vision industry (2012-present)
AI disrupting NLP (2014-present)
Learning From Other Industries
4. Launch of Deep Learning
in Speech at NIPS in 2009
Disrupting The
Speech Industry
5. Disrupting The
Speech Industry
Deep Learning practically
solved the speech recognition
problem by 2012 By John Markoff
Tianjin, China, October 25, 2012
Voice recognition and
translation program
translated speech in
English given by
Richard Rashid,
Microsoft’s top scientist,
into Mandarin Chinese.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpoFSoTnBpU&t=911s
6. Disrupting The Speech Industry: Going Deeper
After little improvement for 10+ years by the research community…
…MSR reduced error from ~23% to <13% (and under 7% for Rick Rashid’s S2S demo in 2012)
7. Disrupting The Speech Research in Academia
“This joint paper from the major speech recognition laboratories
was the first major industrial application of deep learning.”
9. Components of Speech Recognition System
Separate Speech Recognition Models Unified by End2End Deep Learning
Training Data
Applying Constraints
Search
Recognized Words
Representation
Speech Signal
Acoustic Models Language ModelsLexical Models
17. Three Challenges Unique To Investment Management
1
Very low signal-to-noise
ratio
2
Strong nonstationarity
with adversarial nature
3
Heterogeneity of big
(alternative) data
18. Three Challenges Unique To Investment Management
1. Very low signal-to-noise ratio
The technology used to combat noise shares
characteristics with the technology used to handle
small data in training large AI systems, including:
Ability to exploit structure in data
Reliance on prior knowledge
Use of data simulation/augmentation
Smart model regularization
Etc.
AI problems outside finance generally have
lower noise levels, for example:
Speech
Machine translation
Language understanding
Image/video classification & detection
Medical diagnosis
19. Three Challenges Unique To Investment Management
2. Strong non-stationarity with adversarial nature
20. Three Challenges Unique To Investment Management
2. Strong non-stationarity with adversarial nature
Contrast: nonstationary signals
with no adversarial nature
22. Additional Constraints Applying To AI In Investment Management
What still needs to be done to ensure success?
Data
Access
Respect
for Privacy
Scarcity
of Talent
Tailored
Algorithms
23. This document and the information it contains is strictly confidential
and may not be disclosed to any persons other than those for whom it
is intended, nor should this document or the information it contains be
copied, distributed, or redistributed, in whole or in part, without the
prior written consent of Citadel.
All trademarks, service marks and logos used in this document are
trademarks or service marks or registered trademarks or service marks
of Citadel.
Thank You !
Editor's Notes
Hi, I’m LI Deng, Chief AI officer of Citadel, a
Specialist in AI and machine learning, information theory and statistics, speech, NLP, and now finance.
Before I start, I would like to thank YYY/ZZZ for inviting me here to share my and company’s perspectives on AI in Finance.
In the remaining time, I would like to cover three closely related topics:
First, will AI transform the financial markets? The answer is of course positive (otherwise I would not accept to speak here on the topic of AI in Finance). But I would like to provide some rationale behind the answer, from the perspective of high successful AI (deep learning) in other industries which I had first-hand experience in my past career.
Transitioning from speech/NLP to finance industries, in term of the past, present and future of AI, leads to the second topic of Technical Challenges that are unique to the finance industry.
This is followed by the third topic of other less technical constraints and challenges in applying AI to finance, investment in particular.
Modern AI or deep learning is advanced technology increasingly relevant to finance.
As I am sure all of us in the audience know, with MIT Tech Review credited for rapid dissemination of such progresses, deep learning has disrupted speech, vision, NLP, and robotics industries over the past decade.
Due to the time limit, I will have time only to focus on speech industry here and in next few slides.
The connection between speech and finance industries, on surface, seems obvious.
- For one thing, since 90’s, a number of speech recognition experts specialized in shallow statistical machine learning (e.g. HMMs) have moved away from speech industry to become well known leaders in hedge fund industry.
More technically, both speech signals and the financial market data are in a similar form of non-stationary time series, from which deeper information is extracted for the purpose of predicting linguistic symbols or of forecasting future stock values.
However, beyond these superficial similarities, much larger technical differences stand out between finance industry (which has not yet been significantly impacted by AI) and speech/vision/NLP (which are towards maturing due to deep learning).
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[Li will change this slide to remove CV & NLP; not enough time]
AI and deep learning is advanced technology increasingly relevant to finance
provide the potential to unlock large positive benefits for society
Immense amounts of data and resources available in the financial industry and capital markets
big data essential for AI and deep learning
unlike other industries, most financial/market data public or easily obtainable
despite data availability, not all of it is being used or used to max effectiveness
Deep learning and AI piece together massive, diverse data sets
in ways that they can be beneficially incorporated into financial markets
big data ((un)supervised): hallmark of deep learning and modern AI
Let me briefly reflect on the path of modern AI (deep learning) in disrupting speech recognition industry, giving rise to today’s prominent products of Microsoft’s Cortana, Amazon’s Alexa/Echo, Google Assistant, and Apple’s Siri.
After many years of slow progress in speech recognition using (shallow) machine learning (HMM-GMMs), the launch of deep learning into this 40 year-old field started at NIPS-2009.
I was fortunate to co-organize this event with Prof. Geoff Hinton (my consultant), and with his graduate students (my interns) working closely with my speech recognition group at Microsoft Research in Redmond in coming 1.5 years.
[two students, one at Microsoft and Amazon leaving the same day as I; another at Google Brain after turning down my best offer at MSR contributing to the “high pay” of deep learning fresh Ph.D. in media]
We at Microsoft took then academic idea of deep learning with promising results in a very small phone recognition task to several stages of increasingly larger industry scales of very large vocabulary conversational speech recognition.
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Invitee 1: give me one week to decide …,…
Not worth my time to fly to Vancouver for this…
Invitee 2: A crazy idea… Waveforms for ASR are not like pixels for image recognition. It is more like using photons!!!
After two+ years of intense work at Microsoft, with Hinton twice visiting Redmond in 2009 and 2010 working side-by-side with me on deep learning, and with two of his students interning with me, speech recognition error rate was cut by about half.
Then, in the fall of 2012, a public demo in China was carried out, with 3000 people in the audience, voice recognition and translation program successfully translated speech in English given by Richard Rashid, into Mandarin Chinese with virtually no error.
This impressive event was reported in this NY Times’ full-page article (John Markoff interviewed me at Microsoft). Words quickly spread out about this very first industry-scale success of deep learning.
Now let me return to the connections between speech models to finance models.
The main success of deep learning during 2009-2011, attributed to the collaborations between Microsoft and U. Toronto, lies in the use of DNNs to unify several (but not all) major components in the full modeling and recognition process. (Andrew Ng later in Baidu unified all components, and threw away lexical models).
We believe this type of success in speech may inspire future successes of deep learning in finance, at least at a high, strategic level.
My learning process (from Microsoft AI, worked on speech, language, business process, marketing/sales, not finance), as a “grad student”, to learn from Citadel’s superstar finance experts and from books. This is a quite insightful book, fitting my level (a few months ago) well, with “black box” in the title that describes trading process much like we describe deep leaning models.
Modular structure:
Analogous to speech recognition modules: feature extraction, acoustic models such as HMM, language model, pronunciation model.
All feeding into a module that optimize components
Then “execution model” is like decoder in online deployment
Speech recognition revolution: from HMM-centric modular structure and modular learning to holistic DNN structure and end2end learning
My work with Geoff Hinton & students (2009-2010) integrated feature extraction and HMM (dropping errors by 40% with 1.5 years of work), bringing in deep learning to industry from academia
Subsequently, Andrew Ng (Baidu), Google etc. integrated LM and Pron models as well (truly end2end), reducing errors further ~20%.
Amazon, Apple also did deep learning later (not published), so we have Alexa, Siri speech, in addition to Microosft Cortana, Google Assistant.
Now you may guess whether the same concept of holistic modeling and E2E learning may apply to finance (and how), depicted in this box.
However, as alluded earlier, drastic technical differences stand out between finance and speech/vision/NLP. Let me now address three significant challenges that are unique to financial investment management, one by one.
AI problems outside finance generally have lower noise levels
Examples: speech, machine translation, language understanding image/video detection and prediction, medical diagnosis
The technology used to combat noise shares characteristics with the technology used to handle small data in training large AI systems, including:
ability to exploit structure in data,
reliance on prior knowledge,
use of data simulation/augmentation,
smart model regularization, etc.
The adversarial nature in financial market is very different from that in other applications such as playing board-games and fighting robots
Financial academia have yet to propose an effective model for addressing nonstationarity in financial markets due to adversarial competition
Recent literature in AI and robotics is shedding some light - recent papers by Google-DeepMind, Berkeley and Open AI
There has been an immense proliferation of data in recent years: Market price data, fundamental data, and huge sets of “alternative” data including text, image, voice, and multimedia
JP Morgan recently compiled comprehensive sources of such alternative data useful for forecasting financial market
Many other useful data are proprietary to private individuals and data owners (e.g. click streams from search engines, user data from cell phone usages, product ordering from Alexa at home, etc.)
Access to data is incomplete given that a lot of information is proprietary or private
Need more sharing of data for training deep learning models, as long as this does not violate fiduciary duties of finance firms to their clients and it does not harm privacy of individuals
Scarcity of talent capable of bridging the gap between AI research and finance (need to cultivate a talent base that understands both technology and the financial markets)
Need for advanced algorithm development tailored to the financial market