A.I. in the Real World

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A.I. in the Real World

• Ian Ozsvald
• ian_at_ianozsvald.com

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 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 Forecastin,
  Game A.I. 
• NLP for Sentiment Burst

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 War Stories - 3

• Mor Consulting (4 years old), HVB Bank,
  PANalytical
• Code Farm, Jeremy Mabbit ex-Informatics, early
  2000s to date, acquired
• Autonomy (Dr. Michael Lynch and Richard Gaunt),
  late 90s to date, ex-Cambridge Unis, IDOL,
  500mil rev.

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Big Projects

• DARPA Grand Challenge - 3 events
• Netflix Prize - 1 million prize money if you
  beat Cinematch by 10
• Wolfram Alpha - answer engine, calculates from
  structured data
• Cyc - assembling common sense knowledge, 20 yrs
  old
• Big Dog - Biologically inspired walker

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Some Things to Solve

• Video Scene Search -  License or rent it to
  Amazon, Google, Netflix
• CAPTCHAs - re-use spammer's techniques, iPhone
  Translator?
• Speaker-agnostic voice-recognition system for
  mobiles? Mobile co.MS
• Biometric identification - we share PCs, they
  don't know who we are.  MS

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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
• Do you really have customers? -
  ConstructionWeather, TescoRFID

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How to Start - 2

• Tech - AWS S3 EC2
• Mobile Devices - more bandwidth, location angle
• Flickr, Wikipedia, YouTube, Google Streetmap
• GOFAI/NEWFAI - Don't get hung-up
• Agile languages - prefer Python/Ruby/PHP over
  C/Java!

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How to Start - 3

• ShowMeDo.com - boot-strapped, with Kyran Dale
• Running cost 200/month, 1Tb data served, 100k
  monthly users
• Learn Python Here!
• On MIT's radar

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How to Start - 4

• Talk to those that have done it already!
• 5 App event (fivepoundapp.com)
• RobotBrighton.com
• Flash Brighton (Seb - augmented reality)
• LikeMind OpenCoffeeSussex

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How to Start - 5

• Just Get On With It!
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• ian_at_ianozsvald.com

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