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A.I. in the Real World
Ian Ozsvald
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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 exInformatics, early 2000s to date,
acquired
• Autonomy (Dr. Michael Lynch and
Richard Gaunt), late 90s to date, exCambridge 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? Construction+Weather, Tesco+RFID
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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, <£10k
start-up, 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
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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!
[email protected]
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