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Machine Intelligence:
A Startup Adventure
Hilary Mason
@hmason
Good morning!
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Grace Hopper Conference Opening Keynote
Technology is changing.
(and people stay the same)
Machine Intelligence.
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By Gene Kogan, based on the paper by Gatys, Ecker, Bethge.
@pentametron
Data	 products	 are	 everywhere.
Grace Hopper Conference Opening Keynote
Grace Hopper Conference Opening Keynote
Grace Hopper Conference Opening Keynote
(it’s boring)
Grace Hopper Conference Opening Keynote
Grace Hopper Conference Opening Keynote
Rules-
based
Creative
Repetitive
Why now?
Affordable computation.
Algorithms.
Data!!
Grace Hopper Conference Opening Keynote
Grace Hopper Conference Opening Keynote
Grace Hopper Conference Opening Keynote
And we are just at the beginning!
[robot	 dog?]
None of this is entirely new.
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[slides	 to	 come]
Grace Hopper Conference Opening Keynote
What it means to be a Computer
Scientist is changing.
Grace Hopper Conference Opening Keynote
math &
stats
code
communication
nerds
nerds
nerds
awesome
nerds!
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.
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We focus on innovation
opportunities through data and
algorithms.
Academic Research
Startups
Established Companies
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Grace Hopper Conference Opening Keynote
The biggest opportunities
might surprise you.
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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
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WTF??
4)	 new	 data	 	 
is	 available
4b)	 data	 is	 made	 useful
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We create reports and prototypes
around each emerging capability,
and give advice.
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Grace Hopper Conference Opening Keynote
Grace Hopper Conference Opening Keynote
papers + prototypes
“nerd friends”
growth
Working with a broad set of
companies leads us to generally
appealing applications.
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Grace Hopper Conference Opening Keynote
Efficient models for learning from
streams of data as they are
generated.
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Grace Hopper Conference Opening Keynote
Grace Hopper Conference Opening Keynote
Grace Hopper Conference Opening Keynote
Grace Hopper Conference Opening Keynote
pictograph.us
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[caution]
What’s next?
Grace Hopper Conference Opening Keynote
Grace Hopper Conference Opening Keynote
You’re building the future.
Please build the one you want to live in.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
I’m Hilary. @hmason. hilary@fastforwardlabs.com
Thank you!!
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

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