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Azeem Azhar Should You be Afraid of Artificial Intelligence? BoS2016
1. SHOULD YOU BE AFRAID OF
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?
Azeem Azhar @azeem
Schibsted Media Group
2. @azeem
HELLO! MY NAME IS AZEEM AZHAR
➤ Product manager at Schibsted Media Group
➤ Norwegian media & classifieds group with
operations in 29 countries & 7,000 employees
➤ Curate, Exponential View (http://azeem.io/s)
➤ @azeem on Twitter
➤ azeem@schibsted.com
3. @azeem
SHOULD YOU BE AFRAID OF AI? (TL;DL - NO!)
Boom or winter Accelerants Implications Actions
8. @azeem
THE SEVEN ACCELERANTS OF THE AI BOOM
Moore’s Law
Data explosion
Collaboration
Software eats
the world
APIs &
microservices
Open source
Lock-in
16. @azeem
OPEN SOURCE STRATEGIES FROM MAJORS
Major global internet companies
release internal machine
learning & AI frameworks
G, M & F: Cognitively-rich API
services available too
25. @azeem
BETTER THAN HUMAN: PREDICTIONS & BETTING
Predicted top 4 finishers of
2016 Kentucky Derby on May
8th.
540-1 odds.
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/swarm-ai-predicts-the-2016-kentucky-derby/
27. @azeem
2: APPLICATIONS ARE GETTING BETTER
Better foundational blocks
NLP
CV
µSVC
Data Eng
APIs Data Quality
Integrated applications
Customer service
Querying
Legal
Engineering
28. @azeem
LAWYERS, DRIVERS, PAS, JOURNALISTS
EMMA
Q&A; discovery; precedent detection based on IBM Watson
Autonomous vehicles; networked learning system
Autonomous writing tool
NLP-rich scheduling and calendaring assistant
30. @azeem
PLAY OR PRAY
PLAY
BUILD A DATA MOAT
SEMANTICALLY SENSIBLE
INTERFACES
KEEP THE HUMAN IN THE LOOP
PROCESSES NOT ONESHOT
31. @azeem
HOW WILL YOU BUILD YOUR DATA MOAT?
BUILD A
DATA
MOAT
CORE ALGORITHMS /
FRAMEWORKS ARE IN
OPEN SOURCE
UNIQUR AI NEEDS
UNIQUE DATA
BUILD A DATA
ACQUISITION STRATEGY
32. @azeem
HOW WILL YOU ENSURE COHERENT SEMANTICS IN EXPOSED INTERFACES?
CLEAN
APIS
EASIER TO INTEGRATE IN
OTHER INTELLIGENT
SYSTEMS
EASIER TO OPTIMISE
NARROW AI
33. @azeem
KEEP THE HUMAN IN THE LOOP
HUMANS
NEEDED
ONGOING TRAINING
LAST-MILE
RISK MANAGEMENT
34. @azeem
BUILD THE RIGHT PROCESSES
HUMANS
NEEDED
ONGOING TRAINING
INVESTMENT
UNDERSTAND YOUR
TRADEOFFS
HOW TO SECURE BETTER
DATA
35. @azeem
SHOULD YOU BE SCARED OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?
➤ Huge opportunities to build better products &
reach new markets
➤ Competitive threat if you do not innovate
➤ Expensive and requires internal capability
building (so hard)
➤ Unlikely to end humanity right in near future.