Affectiva Redefining Human-Machine Partnership through Emotion AI #emtechdigital

Affdex for Market Research With facial coding and emotion analytics advertisers can measure unfiltered and unbiased consumer emotional responses to digital content. All your panelists need is internet connectivity and a standard webcam. SOURCES- Affectiva, Live reporting by Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com at EmTech Digital 2019. Taniya Mishra is the Director of AI Research and Lead …

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AI in Logistics and Transportation #emtechdigital

Chazz Sims is the Cofounder and CEO, Wise Systems. Wise Systems automatically schedules, monitors, and adjusts routes in real time – keeping teams on schedule and on plan. Chazz and Wise Systems believes that data is the key to optimized fleet management. They have found out there is a data poor environment for fleet management. …

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Getting Autonomous Cars Ready for the Road #emtechdigital

Dmitri Dolgov is the CTO and VP of Engineering, Waymo. Dmitri briefly reviewed the self-driving car work ten to 15 years ago from the DARPA grand challenge to today. They initially chose 10 driving routes and driving about 100,000 miles to teach and test its AI to get to the point of a workable prototype. …

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Enhancing Human Potential with AI #emtechdigital

AI can be used to augmenting our intelligence. Lama Nachman is an Intel Fellow, Intel Labs; Director, Anticipatory Computing Lab, Intel. She will discuss Enhancing Human Potential with AI. Lama Nachman led the team that gave a voice to the late Professor Stephen Hawking. From context-aware intelligence to help people with disabilities to enabling healthcare …

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AI for Good: Balancing the Risks and Rewards #emTechDigital

There are series of three speakers talking about using AI for social good, defend human rights and an analysis on how to mitigate AI generated fake news. Ensuring that the era of AI benefits society at large will require developing new ethical principles for the field, and rethinking how we engage with these systems and …

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The Human Impact of AI #EmTechDigital

Leaders in the field are looking beyond cutting-edge research to examine the impact that AI technologies are having in the world. Putting humans at the center of the discussion is critical to ensure that society will benefit from fair, unbiased tools. Fei-Fei Li is the speaker. Professor, Computer Science Department and Co-Director, Human-Centered AI Institute, …

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Robots That Learn by Doing – Imagining Pictures and Goals #emdigitaltech

Sergey Levines is anAssistant Professor, UC BerkeleyRobots That Learn by Doing Sergey is talking about reinforcement learning. Robots can keep learning from its environment with reinforcement learning. We need algorithms for scalable off-policy reinforcement learning. Sergey has examples of a robot teaching itself how to walk forward in about one hour. Robots were able to …

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Future of AI and Security #emTechDigital

Dawn Song Professor, UC Berkeley; Founder and CEO, Oasis Labs Future of AI and Security Dawn is talking about AI-powered DDOS cyber attacks. Machine Learning in the Presence of the Attacker Cyber attacks upon AI. It can attack the integrity and confidentiality of the AI system. Consider self-driving car AI Real-world stop signs are dirty …

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Microsoft AI Breakthroughs – AI Amplified Content and Creativity #emtechdigital

Harry Shum Executive Vice President, Artificial Intelligence and Research Group, Microsoft Democratization of AI He is talking about the State of AI. Microsoft AI has reached or exceeded human capabilities with speech, reading and writing from 2016 to today. He talked about XiaoIce a social Chatbot that released a pop album and recites and narrates …

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Live Blogging MIT EmTech Digital 2019 #emtechdigital

Brian Wang of Nextbigfuture will be live blogging the MIT Technology Review EmTech Digital 2019 event at the St. Regis in San Francisco. The focus is on the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence. It is a two-day event. Gideon Lichfield, Editor in Chief, MIT Technology Review, will be providing 15 minutes of opening remarks. AI …

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Details of China’s Three Prototypes of Exaflop Supercomputer Architectures

China is building three prototypes for exaflop supercomputers. Depei Qian gave a talk at SC18 is now available. China is building three prototypes with about 2 to 4 Petaflops of performance. The three systems are by Sugon, Tianhe and Sunway. The systems have upgraded processors, interconnects and cooling. China is upgrading its national high performance …

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