This short presentation provides context for the field of AI today and makes some predictions about the advancements of the field in the enterprise in the next 5-10 years
1. AI in the Enterprise – Looking Forward
David Vandegrift
2. Introduction
Me
Focus of the presentation
Chicago AI Meetup
Coursera ML course
Self-exploration
Technical background
TodayAncient history
(10-50 yrs ago)
~3-5 years out Here be
dragons
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3. A framework to discuss AI
Technologies
Applications
Use Cases
Machine Learning Non-ML
Robotics
Autonomous vehicles
Smart image search/analyticsAudio transcription
Predictive maintenance
Writing
Product recommendation Chat bots Voice of the customer
analytics
Targeted advertising
Search
engines
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
Natural Language Generation (NLG)
Natural Language Querying (NLQ)
Computer vision
Voice-to-text
Recommendation engine
Anomaly detection
Categorization
Audio generation Image generation
Symbolic logic
Expert systems
Decision trees
(Artificial) neural networks
Deep neural networks
Convolutional neural networks
Recurrent neural networks
Generative adversarial networks
Linear regression
Logistic regression
Clustering
Random forest
Support Vector Machines
Markov
processes
Note: far from exhaustive 3
4. Use Case #1 – Customer Service Assistants
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Description
AI-driven “assistants” work
alongside contact center workers
(both chat and phone) to
recommend relevant knowledge
base articles and answers as they
listen in on customer conversations
These capabilities get better over
time, increasingly automating
customer service agents’ jobs
Best-in-class today is ~30%
automation
Enabling technologies
Deep learning → disambiguation in
NLP → improving nuanced
interpretation
Industry-specific ontologies →
enable fuzzy matching
Human-level voice-to-text →
accurate NLP on phone calls
Interesting startups
DigitalGenius
AgentIQ
Kasisto
5. Use Case #2 – Employee Performance & Compliance
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Description
Central AI keeps an eye on
employee communications to:
1. Identify compliance/risk
behavior
2. Improve performance
Out-of-the-ordinary is flagged for
manual review; outcome fed back
into the model
Judgment improves over time,
leading to more automation
Enabling technologies
Deep learning → disambiguation in
NLP → improving nuanced
interpretation
Translation of text into structured
data → empowers anomaly
detection
Availability of data in the enterprise
and employees accepting being
monitored
Interesting startups
Digital Reasoning
NexLP
Glint
BetterWorks
6. Use Case #3 – Image Analytics
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Description
“Winning” the ImageNet competition
in 2015 with CNNs was one of the
major catalysts of the AI Spring
Algorithms are now at human levels
in many types of image processing;
these capabilities have been
opened up publicly in the last ~12
months
Key constraint today is identifying
business cases:
• Insurance – property
assessment
• Construction – drone surveying
• Google – automated mapping
Enabling technologies
As of 2015, CNNs have achieved
human-level object detection in
images
Facebook and Google have proven
out super-human face detection
algorithms
In 2015 researchers proved out
super-human emotion detection
Interesting startups
Orbital Insight
Clarifai
OmniEarth (EagleView)
Face++
7. Use Case #4 – Automated Creation
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Description
AI will be able to create realistic
sounds (including speech in a given
person’s voice) and images virtually
for free
Massive impact potential on
creatives (voice actors, graphic
designers, photographers, etc.)
Business cases completely
unexplored but include accessibility,
advertising personalization, and
data visualization
Enabling technologies
GANs → step-change improvement
in audio and image creation
Interesting technologies
WaveNet
Lyrebird
Face2Face
arXiv 1605.05396
arXiv 1512.00570
arXiv 1609.04802
8. Dragons (5+ years out)
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Reinforcement learning agents and process
automation
Mass-automation of customer service
Unified Information Access
Text/speech summarization/synthesis