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POWER THROUGH SIMPLICITY:THE TRANSFORMATION OF COMPUTING THROUGH ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE
Nick Triantos, Managing Director, SRI Ventures
About SRI
Wearable Robotics
The InternetComputer Mouse
Cybersecurity
Siri
Autonomous Robotics Space & Comms
Diagnostic Ultrasound
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEIN THE WORKPLACE
"AI Is About To Go Mainstream And Reshape The Workplace", TechCrunch, Sept 2015
AI-POWEREDBUSINESS APPS
AI USE IN THEENTERPRISE
"2015 State of Artificial Intelligence & Big Data in the Enterprise", NarrativeScience
Machine Learning
VPA
Decision Support
Reporting
Analytics
Robotics
All of the Above
0% 6% 12% 18% 24%
WHAT MACHINE LEARNING CAN DO
Image Credit: Scikit-learn
Categorization
"What is this thing?"
Supervised Categorization"Which known thing is this?"
Unsupervised categorization"Which things are similar?"
Data Analysis
Regression"Predict a numeric result"
Dimensionality Reduction"What's important here?"
SPEECH RECOGNITION
APPROACHING "GOOD ENOUGH"
"KPCB INTERNET TRENDS 2016 ", Mary Meeker, Kleiner Perkins, p. 117
SPEECH RECOGNITION TODAY
"KPCB INTERNET TRENDS 2016 ", Mary Meeker, Kleiner Perkins, p. 119
USER INTERFACE IS STILL USEFUL
VOICE: MIXED BLESSING
The Good
• Access any part of user interface instantly
• Easy and convenient
• Adaptable & Personalized
The Less Good
• Can fail with connectivity loss
• Some security challenges
• Harder to create expressive user interface
OVERVIEW OF CURRENTVIRTUAL ASSISTANTS
GOOGLE ASSISTANT
• Google Home & Google Allo
• Context-aware responses
• Leverages the other data Google knows about you
• Only available through Google apps so far "This is not a thing that's going to figure itself out in 2016. It's going to be a long journey."– Mario Queiroz, VP Product, Google
AMAZON ECHO
• Fun cloud-based platform
• Excellent hardware for far-field voice recognition
• Excellent ASR and getting even better
• Extensible, and now appearing in non-Amazon products
• Very limited capability to have a conversation
• Requires connectivity
APPLE SIRI
• Siri coming to MacOS
• Limited conversational context
• Opening Siri to developers (at last)
FACEBOOK "M"
• 100% human-powered today
• Goal to be 100% machine-driven in 5 years
• Access to huge database of your interests and those of your friends
• Heavy overlap with core ad serving technologies
CHALLENGES OF BEING TOOGENERAL PURPOSE
– The Simpsons, 1994
DEEP KNOWLEDGE&
THE RISE OF VIRTUAL SPECIALISTS
SRI VIRTUAL ASSISTANT ("VPA")
• Deeply conversational
• Well-suited as "Virtual Specialist"
• Custom speech recognition models
• Highly customizable ontologies
• Embedded in numerous platforms
• Can work without the cloud
MORE NATURAL COMMUNICATION
FLOW
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From which account?
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DOMAIN SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE
Transfer
From To
Account
Savings Checking
Restrictions
Restrictions
Balance
Warnings
! Fee warning
Balance warning!
SPECIALIZED VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS
PERSONALIZING THE EXPERIENCE
SOCIAL INFLUENCES
• Opaque adaptable recommendations
• Leverage huge pool of data in social networks
• Likely to dramatically improve over time
• Allow for high-value advertising if done well
EMOTION DETECTION
Virtual Assistant Platform
PERSONALIZATION HUB
Present a better experience, personalized to the user, based on:
• Who the user is
• What the user usually likes
• What state the user is in
• Where and when the interaction with the user occurs
Context aware
Emotion detection
Preferencelearning
Biometric ID
Application
Understanding Humans
PERSONALIZING THE EXPERIENCE
YouTube: Meskel Square, Addis Abeba, Ethopiahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEIn8GJIg0E
YouTube: Autonomous Intersection Management, UT Austinhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pbAI40dK0A
CLOSING THOUGHTS
• Cheap sensors + machine learning = feasible AI
• Early tools are rough, but rapidly improving
• Virtual specialists & AI will be able to augment and later replace some jobs
• Collect data now, learn from it quickly, or be passed by those who do
