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Thank you Sponsors #ThriveITconf
Silver
Evening event sponsor
Material
Media
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
@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%
85%
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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
Perf
orm
an
ce
Time
Today
Machine
Human
THANK YOU - Questions?