Machine Intelligence: A Startup Adventure Hilary Mason @hmason
Machine Intelligence: A Startup Adventure
Hilary Mason
@hmason
Good morning!
Technology is changing.
(and people stay the same)
Machine Intelligence.
By Gene Kogan, based on the paper by Gatys, Ecker, Bethge.
@pentametron
Data products are everywhere.
(it’s boring)
Rules- based Creative
Repetitive
Why now?
Affordable computation.
Algorithms.
Data!!
And we are just at the beginning!
[robot dog?]
None of this is entirely new.
[slides to come]
What it means to be a Computer Scientist is changing.
math &stats
code
communication
nerds
nerds
nerds
awesomenerds!
Data science:
Predicting the future is hard.
Where does innovation come from?
Academia
Enterprise!
Startups.
The System is Complex.
you
you
Creating an organization is just deploying a different kind of infrastructure.
We focus on innovation opportunities through data and
algorithms.
Academic ResearchStartups
Established Companies
The biggest opportunities might surprise you.
What makes a machine intelligence technology ‘interesting’?
1) a theoretical breakthrough
2) a change in economics
http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte
3) a capability becomes a commodity
WTF??
4) new data is available
4b) data is made useful
We create reports and prototypes around each emerging capability,
and give advice.
papers + prototypes
“nerd friends”
growth
Working with a broad set of companies leads us to generally
appealing applications.
Efficient models for learning from streams of data as they are
generated.
pictograph.us
[caution]
What’s next?
You’re building the future. Please build the one you want to live in.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Photo & Project Credits
• NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, http://luvit.me/1Oown6H
• Pentametron, by Ranjit Bhatnagar, https://twitter.com/pentametron
• StyleNet paper by Gatys, Ecker, Bethge http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06576
• Hand on smartphone, www.japanexperterna.se/?attachment_id=3068
• Sunflower by Raffaele Camardella, http://luvit.me/1LISN1T
• Magic Rabbit by Jenn and Tony Bot, http://upvot.es/1MnLp6u
• ProPublica Surgeon Scorecard, https://projects.propublica.org/surgeons/
• Google Deep Dream, https://github.com/google/deepdream