practical ai uses and the ai data gap

Practical AI Uses

and the AI Data Gap

Kenneth CukierSenior Editor, The Economist

Coauthor “Big Data: A revolution that transforms how we live, work and think”

NASSCOM ILF 2018 • Hyderabad, India • February 19th 2018

a story. . .

ai

ai

machine learning

ai

machine learning

patterns in data

how?

everywhere, everyday

inference

inference

what the technology lowers the cost of?

inference

what the technology lowers the cost of?

computer → arithmetic

inference

what the technology lowers the cost of?

computer → arithmetic

inference

what the technology lowers the cost of?

computer → arithmetic

inference

what the technology lowers the cost of?

computer → arithmetic

ai → prediction

inference

what the technology lowers the cost of?

computer → arithmetic

ai → prediction

turn things into prediction problems

and solve them with ai

uses

uses

scale | speed | accuracy

complexity

complexity

spot patterns humans miss

challenges

challenges

jobs

challenges

jobs

data

lip-reading unique words

oxford & deepmind: 17,428

oxford lipnet: 51

challenges

jobs

data

explainability

challenges

joba

data

explainability

privacy

moral obligation to use data

practical ai

thank you

KennethCukier@Economist.com

@kncukier