artificial intelligence and cognitive computing

IBM Cloud & Cognitive

Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing

What is it? What’s new? What’s next?

Florian GeorgIBM Cloud & Cognitive Technical Leader

Keynote DataDirect IT Security Forum 20 Sept 2017


MUSK Zuckerberg

"AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization.”

“people who [..] drum up these doomsday scenarios -- […] I actually think it is pretty

irresponsible […] In the next five to 10 years, AI is going to deliver so many improvements in the

quality of our lives”


Long term: Superhuman intelligence and reign of the robots?

[…] he was surprised at how easily the bot beat a human

player, adding that it felt “a little like [a] human, but a little like

something else.”

https://www.slashgear.com/openais-dota-2-bot-defeats-worlds-best-pro-player-12494928/

?


Today (and tomorrow): Cognitive Systems

http://www.kaaltv.com/news/ibm-has-hand-in-creating-accessible-self-driving-bus/4604924/

REASON

They can reason, grasp underlying concepts, form hypotheses, and infer and

extract ideas.

UNDERSTAND

Cognitive systems understand imagery, language and other

unstructured data like humans do.

LEARN

With each data point, interaction and outcome, they develop and

sharpen their expertise, so they never stop learning.

INTERACT

With abilities to see, talk and hear, cognitive systems

interact with humans in a natural way.

https://youtu.be/8_bi-S0XNPI


.. but haven’t we been there already?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

The A.I. Winters of the 1970s / 80s


What is it REALLY?

Statistics & Math + Data + Computing Power + X

Supervised Learning

Unsupervised Learning

Online vs. Offline

…

Machine Learning


Supervised Learning: Decision Trees

induction from training data,generalizes to future observations


Supervised Learning: (Deep) Neural Networks


Unsupervised Learning: k-means

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-means_clustering


Demos and Examples of Cognitive Systems


The IBM Cloud Platform

Cloud InfrastructureA highly scalable, security

enabled infrastructure

DataTools to prepare data

for cognitive

AICognitive building blocks for

developers

Applications, solutions and services

Targeted solutions for enterprise businesses

Ingestion

Conversation

Storage Analytics Deployment Governance

Visual Recognition

Discovery

Speech

Compare and Comply

Document Conversion

DLaaS

Nat Language Understanding

Nat Language Classifier

ToneAnalyzer

PersonalInsight

KnowledgeQuery

Cloud Integration

Networking SecurityCore

Enterprise Infrastructure

CognitiveSystems

Virtual Servers

File Storage

Object Storage

Cognitive Micro-services DevOps Tooling

WatsonOncology

WatsonCyber

SecurityWeather

IBM Services

& Ind. Solutions

WatsonVirtual Agent

Watson Explore

and Discover

IBM Risk and Compliance

Asset Mgmt.

(Maximo)


http://openwhisk-darkvision.mybluemix.net/#!/


https://speech-to-text-demo.mybluemix.net/


IBM Watson for Cyber Security

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYZOIdK4o1M


Other Examples

•Predictive Maintenance

•Elderly Care

•Fake News Detection

•…


Summary


What’s new ?

• Advances in algorithms after the “AI Winter”. (e.g. on issues like the “vanishing gradient problem” or “curse of dimensionality)

• Availability of (lots!) of data - IoT, connected devices, sensor networks, unstructured data …

• Large scale, “on-demand” computing power à The Cloud

• Focus on supporting humans, rather than replacing them: Cognitive vs. “traditional” AI


What’s next ?

• AI and Cognitive will have lots of impact on our lives

• New cross-discipline questions on “super human intelligence” - ethics, regulations etc.

• Space Travel !

"Runaround" (1942), Isaac Asimov

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