The Future of AI
Kathryn Hume
VP Product & Strategy
@humekathryn
Or, The Not-So-Singular Life of Jean-Sebastian Gagnon
@integrateai
353,000 newborns worldwide
240 in Québec
One of those 240 babies is our story’s hero.
His name is Jean-Sebastian Gagnon.
The Childhood of JS Gagnon
Great Aunt Agathe bequeaths her Choose Your Own Adventure book collection
JS learns about
the natural world
JS sees great masterpieces …
http://genekogan.com/and doubts that humans are that special
https://aiexperiments.withgoogle.com/ai-duetJS studies music theory
https://aiexperiments.withgoogle.com/ai-duet
https://aiexperiments.withgoogle.com/ai-duet
(What JS’s mom thinks he’s talking about)
At 12, JS doesn’t need a ride to baseball practice …
… but his parents sure paid a lot for liability insurance!
JS enters the awkward phase
*That’s not JS’s hand **JS sticks to girls his own age
JS’s first date with Tania
JS’s real-life first date with Tania
JS Gagnon Goes to University
Claude Shannon’s maze-solving mouse Theseus, 1952
Arthur Samuel’s checkers program on the IBM 701, 1956
Rosenblatt’s Mark I Perceptron
Cornell University, 1957
Early 2000s
Age of Brute Statistics
Performance of GPUs over timeGPU vs. CPU Performance of
Black-Scholes Option Pricing
Next Generation Hardware
Next Generation Hardware
JS Gagnon Becomes a Startup Guy
Traumatized from the awkward days,
JS hates having his picture taken
Bradford Cross, June 14 2017
1. Full stack products
2. Subject matter expertise
3. Proprietary data
4. AI delivers core value
Machine Radiologists
Machine Due Diligence
Probabilistic Endpoint Security
JS Gagnon Reads a Rotman Case Study
about integrate.ai
The Future of AI
Kathryn Hume
VP Product & Strategy
@humekathryn
Or, The Not-So-Singular Life of Jean-Sebastian Gagnon
@integrateai
This is not my beautiful wife!
One of those 240 babies is our story’s hero.
His name is Jean-Sebastian Gagnon.
Great Aunt Agathe bequeaths her choose your own adventure book collection
Path we thought
JS chose
Path JS
actually chose!
JS’s real-life first date with Tania
Tania inspires JS to read her AI book collection
JS Gagnon Devotes his Life to Education
Teaching young kids probability
Plato Aristotle
Reinstating a classical liberal arts education
Promoting MOOCs for
skills retraining
Developments in Language Processing
Traditional NLP N-grams Word Embeddings
Bolukbasi, Chang, Zou, Saligrama, Kalai, 2016
Man : King :: Woman : Queen
Man : Computer Programmer :: Woman : Homemaker
Black Male : Assaulted :: White Male: Entitled To
Inherent Bias in Word Embeddings
Bolukbasi, Chang, Zou, Saligrama, Kalai, 2016
Debiasing Without Compromising Utility
We must live both JS’s lives.
Let’s choose the adventure that builds
the future we want to live in.
Thank you
(We’re Hiring!!)
[email protected]
@humekathryn
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