Machine Intelligence: A Startup Adventure

Hilary Mason

@hmason

Good morning!

Technology is changing.

(and people stay the same)

Machine Intelligence.

By Gene Kogan, based on the paper by Gatys, Ecker, Bethge.

@pentametron

Data products are everywhere.

(it’s boring)

Rules- based Creative

Repetitive

Why now?

Affordable computation.

Algorithms.

Data!!

And we are just at the beginning!

[robot dog?]

None of this is entirely new.

[slides to come]

What it means to be a Computer Scientist is changing.

math &stats

code

communication

nerds

nerds

nerds

awesomenerds!

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.

We focus on innovation opportunities through data and

algorithms.

Academic ResearchStartups

Established Companies

The biggest opportunities might surprise you.

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

WTF??

4) new data is available

4b) data is made useful

We create reports and prototypes around each emerging capability,

and give advice.

papers + prototypes

“nerd friends”

growth

Working with a broad set of companies leads us to generally

appealing applications.

Efficient models for learning from streams of data as they are

generated.

pictograph.us

[caution]

What’s next?

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