The AI Revolution will not be Monopoilized

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The AI Revolution will not be Monopolized Ines Montani Explosion AI

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Open-source library for industrial-strength Natural Language Processing in Python

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Open-source library for industrial-strength Natural Language Processing in Python Company and digital studio, bootstrapped with consulting

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Open-source library for industrial-strength Natural Language Processing in Python Company and digital studio, bootstrapped with consulting First commercial product: radically efficient data collection and annotation tool, powered by active learning Extension platform with a SaaS layer to help users scale up annotation projects SCALE You are here!

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Open-source library for industrial-strength Natural Language Processing in Python Company and digital studio, bootstrapped with consulting First commercial product: radically efficient data collection and annotation tool, powered by active learning Coming soon: pre-trained, customisable models for a variety of languages and domains You are here! Extension platform with a SaaS layer to help users scale up annotation projects SCALE

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The concept of an “AI race” is hopelessly confused.

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Implications of an “AI race” races are competitive races have winners and losers races have a start and an end

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What do we mean by AI?

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What do we mean by AI? Specific consumer products?

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What do we mean by AI? Specific consumer products? “Artificial General Intelligence”?

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What do we mean by AI? Specific consumer products? “Artificial General Intelligence”? A technocratic dictatorship?

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What do we mean by AI? Specific consumer products? “Artificial General Intelligence”? A technocratic dictatorship? A robot army?

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What do we mean by AI? Specific consumer products? “Artificial General Intelligence”? A technocratic dictatorship? A robot army? Machine Learning research?

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Monopolizing a new   product category?

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Monopolizing a new   product category? Lots of new products will use machine learning Many will be monopolized. By who? Fair question! If different companies make all these products, who “won” at AI?

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Being the ﬁrst to develop “Artiﬁcial General Intelligence”?

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Being the ﬁrst to develop “Artiﬁcial General Intelligence”? Very hard to extrapolate from here to proper AGI If someone develops AGI, will it even matter who?

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Being the ﬁrst to develop “Artiﬁcial General Intelligence”? Whatever you believe about AGI... “AGI is science fiction”  Okay, so there’s nothing to win “AGI is an existential threat”  Okay, so nobody will win “AGI will solve all our problems”  Okay, so everybody wins?

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Using new technology  to oppress people?

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Using new technology  to oppress people? Oppression is a risk we should talk about in AI But hardly a race we want to win!

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Winning a literal arms race?

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Winning a literal arms race? Government research will follow, not lead If everyone publishes openly, nobody will pull far ahead

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Publishing the most  machine learning research?

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Publishing the most  machine learning research? Open research is collaborative, not competitive If research is published, everyone wins

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Why don’t companies like Google keep their   research secret?

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Reasons companies publish Attract talent. You can’t get the best researchers if you don’t let them publish Inevitability. Trying to lock down the secrets wouldn’t work anyway Leverage. A higher “AI waterline” is good for their business

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# Company / Institution Total Papers % 1 Google 60 8.8 2 Carnegie Mellon University 48 7.1 3 Mass. Institute of Technology 43 6.3 4 Microsoft 40 5.9 5 Stanford University 39 5.7 6 University of CA, Berkeley 35 5.2 7 Deepmind 31 4.6 8 University of Oxford 22 3.2 9 University of Illinois 20 2.9 10 Georgia Institute of Technology 18 2.7 Source: NIPS Accepted Papers Stats by Robbie Allen (Medium) Nobody “dominates”   machine learning research

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Original source: gpo.gov NOV 20

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But what about the data? Reusing data is like reusing code. If it doesn’t do what you want, it’s not very useful. Personal data matters when it’s about you personally. General knowledge is easy to acquire. It doesn’t need unique proprietary datasets.

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Data alone won’t grant   anyone a monopoly Data has diminishing returns Making your dataset 10× bigger doesn’t   make it 10× better It’s just not that expensive! What datasets cost more than a manufacturing plant?

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We won’t all be buying “AI” from the AI Store.

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  Companies are in-housing Machine learning is software development,   it needs to evolve with the project Nobody has a monopoly on AI expertise,   people are learning quickly Owning and controlling the data is crucial for   many applications

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Vendors can provide  products, not magic The challenge is taking what’s theoretically possible and applying it to a problem What matters is making the right decisions for the larger application

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  Buyers aren’t old and stupid Tech illiterate management stereotype is outdated Most companies let developers choose their tools Developers strongly prefer open technologies: more flexible, better career growth

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Rich open-source ecosystem Library GitHub URL GitHub Stars TensorFlow tensorflow/tensorflow 115k scikit-learn scikit-learn/scikit-learn 32k PyTorch pytorch/pytorch 21k XGBoost dmlc/xgboost 14k spaCy explosion/spacy 11k Gensim RaRe-Technologies/gensim 8k NLTK nltk/nltk 7k NLTK Source: GitHub (November 2018)

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So, who’s going to win at AI then?

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✊ The AI revolution will not   be monopolized There’s no single “AI race” – lots of people are building lots of things There’s no magic solution waiting to be discovered Nothing about machine learning suggests a monopoly or a winner-takes-all market

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Thanks! Explosion AI  explosion.ai Follow us on Twitter  @_inesmontani  @explosion_ai