It is a two-day event.
Gideon Lichfield, Editor in Chief, MIT Technology Review, will be providing 15 minutes of opening remarks.
AI Created Text and Pictures that Seem Real
Gideon is reviewing the basics of AI. Supervised versus unsupervised learning
— he talked about the new software for unsupervised (no human help) generating new text. OpenAI generated a new story segment for the Lord of the Rings.
–There was AI that can identify pictures of cats and other objects. New AI can also generate new pictures of cats and new pictures of human faces that cannot be determined to be faked or created.
–Google Assistant is live and the generated speech patterns seem natural
–AI controlled robotic hands are now as dexterous as human hands.
A big promise for AI is for medical care.
AI is as good as or better than doctors for reading X-rays and medical images.
There will then be a State of AI set of talks by three speakers.
Harry Shum
Executive Vice President, Artificial Intelligence and Research Group, Microsoft
Democratization of AI
Dawn Song
Professor, UC Berkeley; Founder and CEO, Oasis Labs Future of AI and Security
Sergey Levine
Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley Robots That Learn by Doing
Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology.
Known for identifying cutting edge technologies, he is currently a Co-Founder of a startup and fundraiser for high potential early-stage companies. He is the Head of Research for Allocations for deep technology investments and an Angel Investor at Space Angels.
A frequent speaker at corporations, he has been a TEDx speaker, a Singularity University speaker and guest at numerous interviews for radio and podcasts. He is open to public speaking and advising engagements.
That third paragraph was kind of wonky. Apparently the computer thinks Gimli was a wounded orc.
That machine has some way to go to get as good as Tolkien.