ai.bythebay.io: Joel Horowitz, IBM: Host Sponsor Welcome
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you [Music] so hey so i'm johanna IBM you'll probably hear a lot of jargon this week in fact I'm for sure going to be guilty of that in the next five seconds or five minutes you hear things like AI you hear things like data science you hear things like big data you hear things you hear all of these different keywords and I think we're at least in my mind I've landed on is the idea of cognitive and the idea of distributed system if we look at what's going on i'm starting i would say starting with hadoop back in 2010 we're kind of witnessing the emergence of distributed systems distributed data systems distributed intelligence system and distributed people systems right if you look at what Alexi has managed to do of pulling all of us together in fact in a sales force and IBM you know all of us kind of as a community tackling this problem it's pretty interesting so just this month MIT technology review came out with their top 10 breakthrough technology 2017 for the next decade and what's interesting is that that's interesting so this is going to be fun so when they flip the slides over didn't it didn't work so anyways those were supposed to highlight the top five which I guess you can kind of see so 2 3 4 9 and 10 I would argue are related to cognitive or AI in some way and so it's really interesting because you know how do you look back it would have been nanotechnology it would have been maybe DNA or biotechnology but now you're seeing like mostly most tech is kind of converging i would say on distributed or cognitive systems right so if you look at you know self driving trucks right that's a big one if any of you've ever driven on the freeway or the highway you see a lot of trucks of course so that's kind of a big industry to like paying excuse me pain with your face so right now you pay with your finger but pretty soon you know using your own face to pay for something obviously that requires a cognitive system quantum computers now you might be thinking yourself well you know how does that have anything to do with AI or cognitive so quantum computing is really interesting because if you look at what what machine learning and what AI really requires is massive compute power right and so quantum computing is kind entering the scene driven by Intel google and IBM of course we're doing a ton of research in this area we actually just released a way for you yourselves to use quantum computers ourselves through IBM bluemix which is pretty cool I so come find us we're upstairs if you want to learn more about that and then botnets botnets our chat BOTS you know customer service BOTS really interesting so again those are cognitive systems and then reinforcement learning which is how Google you know one go right the game go and we're and that's kind of been coming a new trend I guess you can say machine learning and cognitive systems as well so we're living in a really similar excuse me interesting age with machine learning and AI and these systems are all starting to have a pretty dramatic effect on on technology in general so you know I talked about this in the context of business so you know p.m. you know has been around for some time and what we're seeing today really in this era is as the transformation of business with cognitive systems so it's really exciting I think for all of you to be you know part of this part of this you know situation right now so you know just a little spiel and I p.m. we've seen a lot of frankly through a lot of transformations whether it's you know through you know we've pivoted in response right to to these transformations so to kind of give you an idea of what what's happening you know so what's driving this it's not just that you know there's new innovations and new technologies it's kind of a perfect storm of things happening right machine learning has been around for a long time but around in fact you know we IDM was certainly one of the main research groups behind machine learning in fact we coined the term machine learning I'm not sure if you know that but you know so it's been around a long time but only until recently how we started digitizing all of these business processes right the longest time is very paper based in fact many industries are still very paper-based so what we're doing to a large degree is investing in new technologies that can convert a lot of these paper-based processes to digital right and and what that feeling is causing a massive amount of you know in traumatic amount of data exhaust as you might want to call it created that's corroding you know a really really interesting opportunity i'm not going to go through all of these as i only have a little bit of time so cut stepping through you know of course we've been involved with a lot of persons excuse me transformational technologies over the years from the punch card to storage to personal computers to e-business and to open source Linux right and it's recently you know IBM Watson as well as Park technology center so I have a special place in my heart for apache spark I think it's one of the most interesting breakthrough and underrepresented technologies of our time a lot of people oh it's just uh it's Hadoop 20 I don't think I don't see it that way I think what spark is really doing I was lowering the barrier to entry for a lot of developers to work with in a distributed system but I was I was part of that launched a couple of years ago we have a massive a group of spark technology developers here in San Francisco so if you want to get into you know involved in spark come talk to me and I'll connect you with with that Center and so you know where I see us going you know forward is really in this era of cognitive systems and I can I can try to define that look there but it doesn't just include a I I think AI is you know is a killer app for cognitive system also includes block chain so I don't know how many of you you know we're reading the new york times over the weekend but IBM announced that were part of the hyper ledger group which that you know is also another distributed system right so if you think about blockchain and think about you know transactions and you know and having those happening in a distributed manner as well so so what I like to talk about is in ecosystems and developers and in technology platforms so the way I look at it IBM you know introduced one of the first kind of operating systems early on which was system/360 and that introduced one of the earliest operating systems that you know people could actually build once and use in multiple systems what came later of course our investment in Linux and I'm going a little bit fast and we run at a time and again this introduced the concept of computer science in my mind this is what kind of let who kind of the whole internet economy and application economy and what I think right now is it's really with spark is this idea this is kind of becoming a standard operating system for people to build data and analytic application and I actually think this is you know accelerating data science significantly so you know just to let you with this I don't know if you saw this chart but this came out from crunchbase or not faced with CD insight and it was really interesting and so you can see that you know sitting here in San Francisco there's a ton of innovation happening in the startup landscape so if any of you happen to be entrepreneurs yourself this is a time to be thinking about you know AI and cognitive there's a lot of resources at your disposal you know get make friends with alexi over here you has a lot of contacts are doing some pretty awesome things and so you can see is that you know there's a ton of things going on here you know it's growing rapidly there's a ton of investment pouring in there's a lot of you know a lot of these larger companies IBM included are open sourcing their technologies I mean even Apple right who's been known to not share their research is now publishing research papers and opening up their technology for all of you teams so we're living in a very you know amazing time for all of you to be dissipating in AI so i'll leave you with that there's some links here i know it's really hard to look at a lot less collect peta flesh or send this this deck out so you can all use it but there's a lot of places get started with IBM head over to spark t see if you want to learn more about spark we're launching this cognitive builder fair starting here excuse me starting in seattle at the end of this month march twenty fourth and then here in san francisco and april and we're going to bring a lot of different really cool applications together for you to test and build and use we also have what's called a global entrepreneur program which will give you free credits to use the watson developer cloud to use the data science experience so that you yourselves don't have to worry about you know spending a lot of money to get started and so finally you can reach me at my twitter handle at jas horwitz or send me an email I'm around thanks for time [Applause] [Music]