It is early days but change is coming. Faster than you think. You should worry, but are you concerned about the right things? Should you concern yourself with terrible tales of, ‘The Singularity’, or about how AI and Machine Learning will change the way that your business runs? More at www.BusinessofSoftware.org

1. SHOULD YOU BE AFRAID OF
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?
Azeem Azhar @azeem
Schibsted Media Group

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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

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SHOULD YOU BE AFRAID OF AI? (TL;DL - NO!)
Boom or winter Accelerants Implications Actions

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WHAT IS AI?

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THE MONEY IS FLOWING
7x in
5 years

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THE BIG GUYS ARE MUSCLING IN

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THE SEVEN ACCELERANTS OF THE AI BOOM
Moore’s Law
Data explosion
Collaboration
Software eats
the world
APIs &
microservices
Open source
Lock-in

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WE CREATE MORE TRANSISTORS EVERY 0.1S THAN THERE ARE STARS IN THE GALAXY

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APPLE WATCH MORE POWERFUL THAN A CRAY 2
Fits in a room
1.6Gflops
1985
Fits in a pocket
1.9Gflops
2010
Fits on a wrist
>3Gflops
2015

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GPUS HAVE BEEN A STEP-CHANGE TECHNOLOGY
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/inference-next-step-gpu-accelerated-deep-learning/

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44ZB OF DATA BY 2020, 44X IN 11 YEARS
Sources: IDC, Azeem Azhar analysis
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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Data volume

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COLLABORATION

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SOFTWARE EATS THE WORLD

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APIS & MICROSERVICES

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OPEN SOURCE STRATEGIES FROM MAJORS
Major global internet companies
release internal machine
learning & AI frameworks
G, M & F: Cognitively-rich API
services available too

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THE AI LOCK-IN LOOP
Video games
Search
Mobile UI
Defense
CRM
Finance
Health

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Stuff is getting better

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BETTER THAN HUMAN: OBJECT DETECTION IN IMAGES
Source: Imagenet / https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/mocha-jl-deep-learning-julia/

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BETTER THAN HUMAN: WIDE RANGE OF VIDEO GAMES
(Better at action oriented than exploration oriented games)

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Patrick Rhodes: http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/feature/8791241/Artificial-Intelligence-Solving-the-Chin
Room-Argument.html
BETTER THAN HUMAN: CHESS

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BETTER THAN HUMAN: GO
Alpha Go
1920 CPU
280 GPU

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GOOD AS HUMAN: VERBAL IQ

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BETTER THAN HUMAN: SUTURING INTESTINAL TISSUE
Source http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/
robotics/medical-robots/autonomous-robot-
surgeon-bests-human-surgeons-in-world-first

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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/

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APPROACHING HUMAN: VISUAL Q&A
https://avisingh599.github.io/deeplearning/visual-qa/

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2: APPLICATIONS ARE GETTING BETTER
Better foundational blocks
NLP
CV
µSVC
Data Eng
APIs Data Quality
Integrated applications
Customer service
Querying
Legal
Engineering

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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

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IMPLICATIONS FOR TECH
BUSINESSES

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PLAY OR PRAY
PLAY
BUILD A DATA MOAT
SEMANTICALLY SENSIBLE
INTERFACES
KEEP THE HUMAN IN THE LOOP
PROCESSES NOT ONESHOT

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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

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HOW WILL YOU ENSURE COHERENT SEMANTICS IN EXPOSED INTERFACES?
CLEAN
APIS
EASIER TO INTEGRATE IN
OTHER INTELLIGENT
SYSTEMS
EASIER TO OPTIMISE
NARROW AI

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KEEP THE HUMAN IN THE LOOP
HUMANS
NEEDED
ONGOING TRAINING
LAST-MILE
RISK MANAGEMENT

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BUILD THE RIGHT PROCESSES
HUMANS
NEEDED
ONGOING TRAINING
INVESTMENT
UNDERSTAND YOUR
TRADEOFFS
HOW TO SECURE BETTER
DATA

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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.

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YOUR VIEW?

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Carpe diem!
Azeem Azhar @azeem
Schibsted Media Group