Opentech AI Workshop – Helsinki, Finland March 14, 2018

Daniel Pakkala (VTT) and I are planning an Opentech AI Workshop at IBM Finland HQ on March 14th, 2018. Start End Activity Details Coming Soon 8:00 8:30 Registration 8:30 9:00 Welcome 9:00 10:00 Keynote1 10:00 10:30 Break1 10:30 12:00 Panel1 12:00 13:00 Lunch 13:00 14:00 Panel2 14:00 15:00 Panel3 15:00 15:30 Break2 15:30 16:30 Keynote2 …

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Good reads: Artificial Intelligence Augmentation and Partner Technologies

(1) Artificial Intelligence Augmentation Carter, S., & Nielsen, M. (2017). Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence: By creating user interfaces which let us work with the representations inside machine learning models, we can give people new tools for reasoning. Distill. https://distill.pub/2017/aia “In the 1950s a different vision of what computers are for began to …

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AI Headlines

A wide range of AI headlines in the popular press are pretty misleading…. designed for eyeballs and knee jerks, and not brains and thoughtful discussion. For example, in the headline below “without any help” … https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609141/alphago-zero-shows-machines-can-become-superhuman-without-any-help/ Here is a roadmap to “AI Solved” status based on back of the envelope calculations of amount of data …

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First Global Conference on Creating Value – Leicester, UK May 23-24, 2018

Now organising the First Global conference on Creating Value at Leicester in the UK, May 23-24 2018 a few days before the EMAC conference in Glasgow starting May 29. In addition the Journal of Creating Value jcv.sagepub.com is proposing a special issue on the Role of Technology in creating/destroying value for November 2018. I am looking for a guest …

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200 word abstracts due Dec 3: PICMET Waikiki Beach, Hawaii on August 19-23, 2018

Hope you can join us at PICMET’18 in the “paradise”, Waikiki Beach, Hawaii on August 19-23, 2018. The deadline for the submission of up-to 200 word abstracts is December 3, 2017. 200 word abstract deadline Dec. 3, 2017 for PICMET 2018, Waikiki Beach, Hawaii on August 19-23, 2018: http://www.picmet.org Dundar Kocaoglu ============================== Dundar F. Kocaoglu, …

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Imagination Challenge: Quantify and graph cost of digital workers and GDP per employee USA from 1960-2080

Imagination challenge: Consider quantifying and graphing the decreasing cost of digital workers due to Moore’s Law, and increasing GDP/Employees USA from 1960 to 2080 (projected). A narrow digital worker will cost about a million dollars by 2025, and require a petascale computational system.  The same digital worker will cost about a thousand dollars by 2045, …

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Learning in an age of accelerating technological change re-visited

This week I got emails from a number of colleagues pointing me to papers, books, and startup ideas about learning, education, skills, and the future…. finally had a chance to read through some of them more carefully this Saturday morning… Thanks for the emails from Obinna Anya, Ralph Badinelli, Bill Rouse, and just a few …

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Linguistically Fluent – Kurzweil and Schank

Reaction to Kurzweil’s Linguistically Fluent posting… Kurzweil Linguistically Fluent:  http://www.kurzweilai.net/ray-kurzweil-reveals-plans-for-linguistically-fluent-google-software Kurzweil’s plan is a good plan from a Google Deep Learning perspective… The plan is an extension of the capabilities of seq2seq – sequence to sequence – which is good for DL translation between languages, for example. However, no one has solved Reasoning, which is …

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