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Silver

Evening event sponsor

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AI - Business Breakthrough, Latest Fad,

or the End of Humanity?

Eur Ing Dr Bill AyersMCM/MCSM Charter SharePoint

MVP, MCT, MCTS, MCITP, MCSD, MCAD, MCSA, MCDBA, Professional Scrum

Master, etc. etc.

Flow Simulation Ltd.

www.SPDoctor.com

BillA@flosim.com

@SPDoctor

Consultant specialising in SharePoint and Office

365 Development and Architecture for

Collaboration and Mobile Development

1957

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AI Funding/Popularity

Expert systems

First AI Winter

Second AI Winter

Inflated

expectations of

prototype AI

Deep Learning

…and has been for the last 60 years, on and off

What Changed?

Image:Cloudwatt, CC-BY-SA 3.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Datacenter_Cloudwatt.jpg

Growth of AI

Classification of Images (% error rate)

Speech Recognition Word Accuracy

Source: Google Machine Learning

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95%

90%

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75%

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Sources: ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge and Google Machine Learning

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Percentage error rate

What is a Data Scientist?

Demo:Cognitive Services Custom Vision

http://customvision.ai/

Azure Cognitive Services

Suite of Machine Learning models hosted as a service

No need to develop your own Machine Learning models

Ready-to-go AI for

Vision

Speech

Language

Knowledge

Search

Models developed for you by Microsoft Research

If you need to develop your own models: Azure Machine Learning

Service, CNTK

Also available…

Deploy

Language Understanding

User Input Channels Bot Intelligence

https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive

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Today

Machine

Human

THANK YOU - Questions?