AI By the Bay — 3 Days as 3 Ways to Understand AI

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A good way to understand things, at least for me, as a community-minded engineer and scientist, is to discuss them with rigor, clarity, meaningful questions, and most…

A Hierarchy of AI Systems by Need

As I’m developing the programming for Bay Area AI, I want to cover interesting/popular topics on the one hand but also unfold a systematic exploration on the other.

I’m thinking of several possible ontologies of AI. One is the level of human…

A Virtual AI Institute

Having switched between academia and startups many times, I see we’re at the point where, in certain areas of human endeavor focused on research, technological disruption leads to social disruption. Both startups and academia are techno-social organizations. The most advanced Computer…

Why Cicero?

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Marcus Tullius Cicero was not only a great statesman and orator, but also an innovative philosopher, summarizing, and advancing, Greek philosophy for the Romans. Here’re some of my favorite Cicero’s quotes.

FaceID and the Future of AI

Apple unveiled its iPhone X with FaceID on September 12, 2017. As an engineer, I understand the internal logic by which FaceID came about.

• You want to provide the edge-to-edge screen
• You need to get rid of the Home button form…

AI is not at all like Mobile/Cloud/SaaS

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At the Global AI conference in Santa Clara, I’ve moderated a panel on AI in Industry. Edlar Sadikov, the CEO of Jetlore, was one of the panelists (on the right), and in his talk…

Good AI Resources

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The modern (post-Deep Learning) Artificial Intelligence is a blend of Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Logical and Statistical AI of yore and Data Science, the latter a practice of building data-driven…