These are my slides to a keynote I gave at the annual conference of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) in Noordwijk, Netherlands on 15 September 2017. They look at how data (and the increase of data sources we create) helps accelerate the power of AI. They didn't shoot video but the audio is here: https://www.alpsp.org/write/MediaUploads/Conference/1709AIC/Audio/Plenary_5_-_Volker_Hirsch.mp3

1. http://i.huffpost.com/gen/2223300/images/o-SCARY-TERMINATOR-ROBOT-facebook.jpg
the rise of the machines
understanding how data accelerates AI
Volker Hirsch
@vhirsch
ALPSP, NOORDwijk
15 September 2017

2. Data…
…How Much?

3. The Internet…

4. 2016: 1,100 Exabyte

5. What is an
EXABYTE?

6. 18
Exabyte
10
Library of Congress

7. All Text Content
x 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 =
1 Exabyte
Library of Congress

8. Jodrell Bank
Lovell Telescope

9. Image:TheSKAOrganisation
4.9 ZeTtabyte p.a.
(that’s 5x the internet)

10. Source:IDCDigitalUniverseStudy(2012)
2025
180,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Byte
(180 Zettabyte = 180,000 Exabyte)
http://coe.ba/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/bitcoin-binary.jpg
Source: IDC

11. Dreadnoughtus schrani
http://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/styles/nodeimage/public/blogs_2014/09/la-sci-sn-dreadnaughtus-schrani-biggest-titano-002.jpeg?itok=05UW8TG2

12. http://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/styles/nodeimage/public/blogs_2014/09/la-sci-sn-dreadnaughtus-schrani-biggest-titano-002.jpeg?itok=05UW8TG2
Extinct Today
Download
Complete
Download
65m years to download

13. Exponential
Growth
0
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200k
400k
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5 10 15 20
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g(x
Computing
Data capture
Data sources

14. The machines
are coming
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/2223300/images/o-SCARY-TERMINATOR-ROBOT-facebook.jpg

15. Metcalfe’s Law
V N2~
https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/09/11/20/Telephone-3.jpg
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16. A machine
is a data node
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/2223300/images/o-SCARY-TERMINATOR-ROBOT-facebook.jpg

17. Factory Worker
TESla factory, Fremont, California

18. http://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/article_large/public/thumbnails/image/2016/05/25/16/foxconn.jpg

19. http://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/article_large/public/thumbnails/image/2016/05/25/16/foxconn.jpg
$20/day > technology

20. Amazon automated warehouse
warehouse logistics

21. Policeman
Boston Dynamics Wildcat

23. Baxter
Prof Stefanie Tellex
Brown University

24. RIP. It was good while it lasted...

25. The Matrix

26. Data is
is at the
Centre

27. https://labs.rs/en/facebook-algorithmic-factory-human-data-banks-and-algorithmic-labour/

28. DeepFace: Convolutional Neural Networks
https://www.jwtintelligence.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/WEB_DeepFace-facial-recognition-app-by-Facebook.jpg
Face Recognition
with 98% accuracy
(that is Better than a human - or the FBI)

29. AI Chatbot Negotiators
https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/2001/images/1/18/Hal9000.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20091004150956

30. Alpha Go
Go Board. Image: Wikipedia Commons

31. Go Board. Image: Wikipedia Commons
Advanced Tree Search
2 Neural Networks
(Policy & Value)
12 network layers
Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
Alpha Go

32. Pattern
recognition
jackson pollock, Alchemy, 1947, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York

33. MoreDimensions

34. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vDCdWgwXgLE/maxresdefault.jpg
More network nodes
+ More sensors
+ More raw data
+ Machine Learning
+ Artificial Intelligence
= More Structured Data
= More SENSE
MoreDimensions

35. 0
10
0
20
30
40
50
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1 2 3 4 5
f(x x2
h(x x2
+ 2x
x
g(x
The future
comes
EvenFaster...
http://blog.speculist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Speed.jpg

36. Today is the
slowest pace of progress
you will ever know
Phrase coined by Jonathan Macdonald
http://www.baltana.com/files/wallpapers-5/Speed-Effect-Widescreen-Wallpapers-18277.jpg

37. Thank You!
@vhirsch
me@vhirsch.com
+44 7843 599 678