December 4, 2019

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The new artificial intelligence frontier

The new artificial intelligence frontier

Babak Hodjat discusses the progress in AI, diving into how AI can offer unique solutions in verticals such as investment, medical diagnosis, and ecommerce. Babak details how using massively scaled distributed evolutionary computation, mimicking biological evolution, allows an AI to learn, adapt, and react faster to provide customers with the answers and decisions they need.
Talk Title The new artificial intelligence frontier
Speakers Babak Hodjat (Sentient Technologies)
Conference O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference
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Location New York, New York
Date September 26-27, 2016
URL Talk Page
Slides Talk Slides
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The rise of data and processing power has created the perfect opportunity for AI to identify and derive intelligence from previously unseen patterns in large amounts of data. Babak Hodjat discusses the progress in AI, diving into how AI can offer unique solutions in verticals such as investment, medical diagnosis, and ecommerce. Babak details how using massively scaled distributed evolutionary computation, mimicking biological evolution, allows an AI to learn, adapt, and react faster to provide customers with the answers and decisions they need.

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