Samsung Strategy & Innovation Center
We expect AI systems to provide us with insights and augment, or even replace our decision-making processes. The current state of the art in AI, Deep Learning, while powerful and promising, only solves part of the problem. Paired with the creativity of Evolutionary Computation, AI has the potential for ubiquity, but the challenge is not just the core technology. We are still where Computing was in the early eighties, or the Web, in the mid-nineties. What other steps do we need to take in order to get AI to a point of ubiquitous use, and once we do, what is our role? Babak will present an AI technologist’s perspective on the above.
Babak is VP of Evolutionary AI at Cognizant, and former co-founder and CEO of Sentient, responsible for the core technology behind the world’s largest distributed artificial intelligence system. He was also the founder of the world’s first AI-driven hedge-fund, Sentient Investment Management. Babak is a serial entrepreneur, having started a number of Silicon Valley companies as main inventor and technologist. Prior to co-founding Sentient, he was senior director of engineering at Sybase iAnywhere, where he led mobile solutions engineering. Prior to Sybase, he was co-founder, CTO and board member of Dejima Inc. He is an expert in numerous fields of AI, including natural language processing, machine learning, genetic algorithms, distributed AI, and has founded multiple companies in these areas. Babak holds a PhD in Machine Intelligence from Kyushu University, in Fukuoka, Japan.
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