Artificial intelligence, is it a threat, or a promise for the betterment of humanity? This slideshow explores the history of AI, the development of AI and explains the various forms of AI and their possible impact. It was a talk I gave at Newquay business breakfast club in July 2017.
3. Ada Lovelace
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Supposing,
for instance, that
the fundamental
relations of pitched
sounds in the science of
harmony and of musical
composition were
susceptible of such
expression and
adaptations, the engine
might compose
elaborate and
scientiļ¬c
pieces
ā¢ Worldās ļ¬rst programmer
ā¢ Mathematical prodigy
ā¢ Lord Byronās daughter
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5. Alan Turing
ā¢ Wartime codebreaker and
Father of the computer
ā¢ Devised an artiļ¬cial
intelligence test
ā¢ Called the āImitation Gameā
ā¢ Where you could not tell if you
were talking to a machine or a
human being
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8. John McCarthy
ā¢ 1955 he coined the term
āArtiļ¬cial Intelligenceā
ā¢ āThe Science and Engineering
to make intelligent machines.ā
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9. 1986 Apple Computer
ā¢ I was head of technical
services at Apple UK
ā¢ Investigated AI for answering
customerās technical issues
ā¢ Visited French AI software co
doing such work on Minitel
network.
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10. What is AI?
ā¢ The ability to acquire and apply
knowledge and skills is called
intelligence
ā¢ eg. The human brain
ā¢ Artiļ¬cial intelligence (AI) is
intelligence exhibited by
machines
ā¢ It is the theory and development
of computer systems to perform
tasks normally requiring human
intelligence
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15. Expert Systems
ā¢ Programming computers to make decisions in
real life situations
ā¢ eg. Systems that help doctors diagnose
diseases based on symptoms
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16. Vision
ā¢ Computer vision combines
hardware (cameras and
scanners) and AI software
that permit computers to
capture, store and interpret
visual images and pictures
ā¢ Google Cloud Platform image
analysis
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22. Jobs most at risk from AI
ā¢Transportation and storage - 56% of jobs at high risk from automation
ā¢Manufacturing - 46%
ā¢Wholesale and retail trade - 44%
ā¢Administrative and support services - 37%
ā¢Financial and insurance - 32%
ā¢Professional, scientiļ¬c and technical - 26%
ā¢Construction - 24%
ā¢Arts and entertainment - 22%
ā¢Agriculture, forestry and ļ¬shing - 19%
ā¢Human health and social work - 17%
ā¢Education - 9%
Source: PwC
Robots to affect up to 30% of UK jobs, says PwC
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23. AI - dire warnings, The Singularity
The Singularity will allow us to transcend these
limitations of our biological bodies and
brains ...
There will be no distinction, post-Singularity,
between human and machine
ā¦fundamental risk to the existence of human civilisation
Elon Musk
Humans, who are limited by slow
biological evolution, couldn't
compete, and would be superseded
Stephen Hawking 23
24. Conclusion
ā¢ We shall have to wait and seeā¦..
ā¢ Meanwhile to ļ¬nd out more on AI:
ā¢ IBM Watson
ā¢ Google Cloud Platform Tensorļ¬ow
ā¢ Microsoft Azure AI
ā¢ Amazon AI Services
ā¢ MOOC FutureLearn and Coursera
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