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Artificial Intelligence in The Real World May 2010 Sussex University Guest Lecture

Guest lecture I gave to Sussex University A.I. students in May 2010 to explain the artificial intelligence work I've undertaken in the last 10 years in industry, having graduated in the late 90s from Sussex University. The talk covered A.I. I've seen and developed, some projects to solve and how to start building a good project or business with A.I. Thanks to Blay Whitby for inviting me back for a second year to give the lecture, thanks also to the great students who were so open-minded about my suggestions.

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Artificial Intelligence in The Real World May 2010 Sussex University Guest Lecture

Guest lecture I gave to Sussex University A.I. students in May 2010 to explain the artificial intelligence work I've undertaken in the last 10 years in industry, having graduated in the late 90s from Sussex University. The talk covered A.I. I've seen and developed, some projects to solve and how to start building a good project or business with A.I. Thanks to Blay Whitby for inviting me back for a second year to give the lecture, thanks also to the great students who were so open-minded about my suggestions.

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A.I.

in the Real World

Ian Ozsvald
[email protected]
May 2010 at Sussex University
 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"

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 War Stories - 2

• Mathématiques Appliquées SA
(MASAGroup.com), late 90s to date,
ex-French Unis 
• Planning (Oil, ADP, RM, Onyx)
• Pilots, Robots (Gizmo!), Financial
Forecasting, Game A.I. 
• NLP for Sentiment & Burst

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 War Stories - 3

• Mor Consulting (5 years old), HVB


Bank, PANalytical, Ambiental, Qtara
• Code Farm, Jeremy Mabbit ex-
Informatics, early 2000s to date,
acquired by Calypso (CDOs)
• Autonomy (Dr. Michael Lynch and
Richard Gaunt), late 90s to date, ex-
Cambridge Unis, IDOL, $500mil rev.
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Big Projects in A.I.?

• DARPA Grand Challenge - 3 events


• Netflix Prize - $1 million prize money if
their Cinematch beaten by 10%
• Wolfram Alpha - answer engine,
calculates from structured data
• Cyc (and OpenMind) - assembling
common sense knowledge, 20 yrs old
• Big Dog - Biologically inspired walker
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Some Things to Solve

• Video Scene Search for Amazon or


Netflix (beach, bangalore...) imfdb
• iPhone Translator – image or voice
• Recommendation engine – Amazon's
system for WikiPedia for movies?

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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

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How to Start - 2

• Tech - AWS S3 + EC2, GPUs, Mobiles


• openCV, OCR, NLTK, SciPy
(audience?)
• Flickr, Wikipedia, YouTube, Google
Streetmap, OpenMind (audience?)
• GOFAI/NEWFAI - Don't get hung-up
• Prefer Agile languages (audience?)

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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!

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How to Start - 4

• Talk to those that have done it already!


• £5 App event (fivepoundapp.com)
• HackerSpace (BuildBrighton.com)
• Flash Brighton (Seb - augmented
reality)
• LikeMind (coffee with smart people)

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How to Start - 5

• Just Get On With It!


• “A.I. Handbook” - get involved
• Say if you'd like to meet for coffee...
 
[email protected]

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