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A.I. in the Real World

A.I. in the Real World. Ian Ozsvald ian@ianozsvald.com.  War Stories - 1. SearchSpace (now Fortent.com), late 90s to date, ex-London Unis "Searchspace is the market leader in intelligent systems for Enterprise Automation". 5/16/2009. Knowledge Representation.  War Stories - 2.

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A.I. in the Real World

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  1. A.I. in the Real World Ian Ozsvald ian@ianozsvald.com

  2.  War Stories - 1 • SearchSpace (now Fortent.com), late 90s to date, ex-London Unis "Searchspace is the market leader in intelligent systems for Enterprise Automation" 5/16/2009 Knowledge Representation

  3.  War Stories - 2 • Mathématiques Appliquées SA (MASAGroup.com), late 90s to date, ex-French Unis  • Planning (Oil, ADP, RM, Onyx) • Pilots, Robots (Gizmo!), Financial Forecastin, Game A.I.  • NLP for Sentiment & Burst 5/16/2009 Knowledge Representation

  4.  War Stories - 3 • Mor Consulting (4 years old), HVB Bank, PANalytical • Code Farm, Jeremy Mabbit ex-Informatics, early 2000s to date, acquired • Autonomy (Dr. Michael Lynch and Richard Gaunt), late 90s to date, ex-Cambridge Unis, IDOL, $500mil rev. 5/16/2009 Knowledge Representation

  5. Big Projects • DARPA Grand Challenge - 3 events • Netflix Prize - $1 million prize money if you beat Cinematch by 10% • Wolfram Alpha - answer engine, calculates from structured data • Cyc - assembling common sense knowledge, 20 yrs old • Big Dog - Biologically inspired walker 5/16/2009 Knowledge Representation

  6. Some Things to Solve • Video Scene Search -  License or rent it to Amazon, Google, Netflix • CAPTCHAs - re-use spammer's techniques, iPhone Translator? • Speaker-agnostic voice-recognition system for mobiles? Mobile co.+MS • Biometric identification - we share PCs, they don't know who we are.  MS 5/16/2009 Knowledge Representation

  7. How to Start - 1 • Be passionate, make a demo • Find free users, find paying users • Don't get hung-up about IP, Patents or Funding • Money is available if you have customers • Do you really have customers? - Construction+Weather, Tesco+RFID 5/16/2009 Knowledge Representation

  8. How to Start - 2 • Tech - AWS S3 + EC2 • Mobile Devices - more bandwidth, location + angle • Flickr, Wikipedia, YouTube, Google Streetmap • GOFAI/NEWFAI - Don't get hung-up • Agile languages - prefer Python/Ruby/PHP over C++/Java! 5/16/2009 Knowledge Representation

  9. How to Start - 3 • ShowMeDo.com - boot-strapped, <£10k start-up, with Kyran Dale • Running cost £200/month, >1Tb data served, 100k+ monthly users • Learn Python Here! • On MIT's radar 5/16/2009 Knowledge Representation

  10. How to Start - 4 • Talk to those that have done it already! • £5 App event (fivepoundapp.com) • RobotBrighton.com • Flash Brighton (Seb - augmented reality) • LikeMind + OpenCoffeeSussex 5/16/2009 Knowledge Representation

  11. How to Start - 5 • Just Get On With It! • ian@ianozsvald.com 5/16/2009 Knowledge Representation

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