Artificial intelligence (AI) is powering the fourth industrial revolution. Intelligent machines are tackling new cognitive tasks at scale, leading to enormous economic efficiency gains and disruption across the labour market. But what will be the net impact of AI on society and the ecological environment?
In this talk, Alex Housley, founder and CEO of open-source machine learning platform Seldon, explains how the collaborative approach to AI development helps transform industries and provides the macro-scale opportunities for AI to make the world a better and more sustainable place.
The event was chaired by David Wood. The camera was operated by Kiran Manam.
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For more information about Seldon, see https://www.seldon.io/.
To apply to join the closed beta mentioned in the talk, visit bit.ly/deploy-beta.
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London Futurists - The Future of AI & Sustainability
1. Open Source Machine Learning
Alex Housley, Founder & CEO
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The future of AI and sustainability
London Futurists - 1st July 2017
4. @seldon_io
• Chairman of the Science & Technology
Committee of the Apollo Moon Landings.
• Discovered the first polyatomic molecules in
space (i.e. H2O)
• Figured out there was a black hole in the centre
of the Milky Way.
• Founder of SETI
• Infrared Interferometry - measure size and shape
of stars
• Advisor to Popes and Presidents
• INVENTOR OF THE FREAKING LASER!
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Dr. Charles H Townes
(1915-2015)
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Data Network Effects
Network Effects
The more people that use the service,
the more useful it is because there are
more people to use it with.
Data Network Effects
The more people that use it, the
better the service actually becomes.
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How to add AI to your organisation
Build In-House
3rd Party API
Open-Source
Platform
Control Model Evaluation Time Data Scientists Cost
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Many Algorithms &
Models + Your Own
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Model Explanations
Explaining individual predictions to a human decision-maker. Source: Marco Tulio Ribeiro.
In May 2018 the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will give consumers
a legal “right to explanation” from organisations that use algorithmic decision making.
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Social
"Sustainable development is development that meets the
needs of the present, without compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their own needs."
Environment Economic
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•1st order effects (direct effects) are
detrimental: increase energy, GHG and waste.
•2nd order effects (higher order effects):
decreased ecological footprint (i.e. video conf,
smart grids).
•3rd order effects: both positive and negative -
efficiency gains result in increased usage.
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• Equipment interacts in nonlinear ways.
• Formula-based engineering and human
intuition often do not capture
interactions.
• Cannot adapt quickly to internal or
external changes.
• Each data centre has a unique
architecture and environment.
• Custom tuned model for one system
doesn't apply to another
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• Applied neural networks trained on
operational scenarios and parameters
• Historical data from thousands of
sensors: temperature, power, pump
speed, etc
• Reduced cooling bill by 40%
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North American Electric Grid
• Century-old infrastructure, one of the largest and most complex machines:
• 5 loosely connected AC grids
• 20k generating units
• 7k power station suppliers
• 160,000 miles of high voltage cable
• 150 million meters
• Since 1973 OPEC Oil Embargo: exponential growth in consumption, increased
costs, decreased reliability, more outages, sustainability concerns, increased
risk, decreased investment.
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Smart Grid
• Energy increasingly generated at the distribution edge:
• 1 in 50 US jobs in Solar, increase 25% YoY in 2016.
• 1/3 of energy generation consumer owned and operated by 2020.
• 10% of consumers deploy on-site generation.
• nodes in grid grow by two orders of magnitude to 15 million assets.
• Distributed, autonomous monitoring, analysis and automation.
• Convergence with 50 billion IoT things (most with multiple sensors) by 2030 -
powerful, resilient, efficient, economical.
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Macro AI Model for Sustainability
• Integrate indicators for sustainable
development: dimensions of
environment protection, social and
economic development.
• Teach sustainable goals and strategies
into systems from inception.
• Not simply offloading work to
machines, but helping humans before
better problem solvers at the same
time. (Move 37)
Formation of AI Model of Sustainable Development Environmental Dimension - Navickas, 2008
Sustainable development is a global-scale nonlinear problem.
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Macro AI Model for Sustainability Benefits
• Complexity: Possible to integrate of indicators
of dimensions of environment protection, social
and economic development.
• Simulation: implement multifunctional
simulation operations. Helps experts to achieve
higher level of argumentation on decisions.
• Concentration: More effective distribution of
support from the state and EU.
• Prevention: Anticipatory identification of
environmental problems earlier.
• Transformation: Possible to connect and
disconnect additional events and indicators as
they emerge.
Formation of AI Model of Sustainable Development Environmental Dimension - Navickas, 2008
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1.AI is the key to the UN vision for 2030
2.Micro: optimisation of discrete sustainability problems.
3.Macro: augmentation in human decision and policy making.
4.Progress is driven by open source technology, open data
and global community collaboration across academia,
corporations, start-ups and the government.