Startupfest 2017: Kathryn Hume (integrate.ai)

The Future of AI

Kathryn Hume

VP Product & Strategy

@humekathryn

Or, The Not-So-Singular Life of Jean-Sebastian Gagnon

@integrateai

353,000 newborns worldwide

240 in Québec

One of those 240 babies is our story’s hero.

His name is Jean-Sebastian Gagnon.

The Childhood of JS Gagnon

Great Aunt Agathe bequeaths her Choose Your Own Adventure book collection

JS learns about

the natural world

JS sees great masterpieces …

http://genekogan.com/and doubts that humans are that special

https://aiexperiments.withgoogle.com/ai-duetJS studies music theory

https://aiexperiments.withgoogle.com/ai-duet

https://aiexperiments.withgoogle.com/ai-duet

(What JS’s mom thinks he’s talking about)

At 12, JS doesn’t need a ride to baseball practice …

… but his parents sure paid a lot for liability insurance!

JS enters the awkward phase

*That’s not JS’s hand **JS sticks to girls his own age

JS’s first date with Tania

JS’s real-life first date with Tania

JS Gagnon Goes to University

Claude Shannon’s maze-solving mouse Theseus, 1952

Arthur Samuel’s checkers program on the IBM 701, 1956

Rosenblatt’s Mark I Perceptron

Cornell University, 1957

1986 1989

Early 2000s

Age of Brute Statistics

More Data

Performance of GPUs over timeGPU vs. CPU Performance of

Black-Scholes Option Pricing

Next Generation Hardware

Next Generation Hardware

JS Gagnon Becomes a Startup Guy

Traumatized from the awkward days,

JS hates having his picture taken

Bradford Cross, June 14 2017

1. Full stack products

2. Subject matter expertise

3. Proprietary data

4. AI delivers core value

Machine Radiologists

Machine Due Diligence

Probabilistic Endpoint Security

JS Gagnon Reads a Rotman Case Study

about integrate.ai

The Future of AI

Kathryn Hume

VP Product & Strategy

@humekathryn

Or, The Not-So-Singular Life of Jean-Sebastian Gagnon

@integrateai

WTF?!?!?!

This is not my beautiful wife!

One of those 240 babies is our story’s hero.

His name is Jean-Sebastian Gagnon.

Great Aunt Agathe bequeaths her choose your own adventure book collection

Path we thought

JS chose

Path JS

actually chose!

JS’s real-life first date with Tania

Tania inspires JS to read her AI book collection

JS Gagnon Devotes his Life to Education

Teaching young kids probability

Plato Aristotle

Reinstating a classical liberal arts education

Promoting MOOCs for

skills retraining

Developments in Language Processing

Traditional NLP N-grams Word Embeddings

Bolukbasi, Chang, Zou, Saligrama, Kalai, 2016

Man : King :: Woman : Queen

Man : Computer Programmer :: Woman : Homemaker

Black Male : Assaulted :: White Male: Entitled To

Inherent Bias in Word Embeddings

Bolukbasi, Chang, Zou, Saligrama, Kalai, 2016

Debiasing Without Compromising Utility

We must live both JS’s lives.

Let’s choose the adventure that builds

the future we want to live in.

Thank you

(We’re Hiring!!)

[email protected]

@humekathryn

quamproxime.comwww.integrate.ai

@integrateai