The document tells the story of Jean-Sebastian Gagnon from birth through his childhood and education into adulthood. As a child, he was inspired by books from his great aunt and showed early interest in music, science and questioning what makes humans special. He later studied computer science and became a startup founder working on applications of artificial intelligence in areas like healthcare and security. The document discusses the history and developments of AI technologies over time and how JS continues to promote responsible advancement of AI through education.

1. The Future of AI
Kathryn Hume
VP Product & Strategy
@humekathryn
Or, The Not-So-Singular Life of Jean-Sebastian Gagnon
@integrateai

2. 353,000 newborns worldwide
240 in Québec

3. One of those 240 babies is our story’s hero.
His name is Jean-Sebastian Gagnon.

6. The Childhood of JS Gagnon

7. Great Aunt Agathe bequeaths her Choose Your Own Adventure book collection

8. JS learns about
the natural world

9. JS sees great masterpieces …
http://genekogan.com/
and doubts that humans are that special

10. https://aiexperiments.withgoogle.com/ai-duetJS studies music theory

12. https://aiexperiments.withgoogle.com/ai-duet

13. https://aiexperiments.withgoogle.com/ai-duet

14. (What JS’s mom thinks he’s talking about)

15. At 12, JS doesn’t need a ride to baseball practice …

16. … but his parents sure paid a lot for liability insurance!

17. JS enters the awkward phase

18. *That’s not JS’s hand **JS sticks to girls his own age

19. JS’s first date with Tania

20. JS’s real-life first date with Tania

21. JS Gagnon Goes to University

23. Claude Shannon’s maze-solving mouse Theseus, 1952

24. Arthur Samuel’s checkers program on the IBM 701, 1956

25. Rosenblatt’s Mark I Perceptron
Cornell University, 1957

26. 1986 1989

27. Early 2000s
Age of Brute Statistics

29. More Data

30. Performance of GPUs over time
GPU vs. CPU Performance of
Black-Scholes Option Pricing

31. Next Generation Hardware

32. Next Generation Hardware

34. JS Gagnon Becomes a Startup Guy

35. Traumatized from the awkward days,
JS hates having his picture taken

38. Bradford Cross, June 14 2017
1. Full stack products
2. Subject matter expertise
3. Proprietary data
4. AI delivers core value

39. Machine Radiologists

40. Machine Due Diligence

41. Probabilistic Endpoint Security

42. JS Gagnon Reads a Rotman Case Study
about integrate.ai

48. The Future of AI
Kathryn Hume
VP Product & Strategy
@humekathryn
Or, The Not-So-Singular Life of Jean-Sebastian Gagnon
@integrateai

49. WTF?!?!?!

50. This is not my beautiful wife!

51. One of those 240 babies is our story’s hero.
His name is Jean-Sebastian Gagnon.

52. Great Aunt Agathe bequeaths her choose your own adventure book collection

53. Path we thought
JS chose
Path JS
actually chose!

54. JS’s real-life first date with Tania

55. Tania inspires JS to read her AI book collection

56. JS Gagnon Devotes his Life to Education

57. Teaching young kids probability

58. Plato Aristotle
Reinstating a classical liberal arts education

59. Promoting MOOCs for
skills retraining

63. Developments in Language Processing
Traditional NLP N-grams Word Embeddings

64. Bolukbasi, Chang, Zou, Saligrama, Kalai, 2016
Man : King :: Woman : Queen
Man : Computer Programmer :: Woman : Homemaker
Black Male : Assaulted :: White Male: Entitled To
Inherent Bias in Word Embeddings

65. Bolukbasi, Chang, Zou, Saligrama, Kalai, 2016
Debiasing Without Compromising Utility

66. We must live both JS’s lives.

67. Let’s choose the adventure that builds
the future we want to live in.

68. Thank you
(We’re Hiring!!)
kathryn@integrate.ai
@humekathryn
quamproxime.com
www.integrate.ai
@integrateai