AI strategist at the intersection of video AI and cancer research. Advising sovereign wealth funds, pharmaceutical leaders, and boards. https://scott.ai Welcome to the second post from my collaboration with @chrismattman. We were both intrigued when Google announced a significant upgrade to their search algorithm in late 2019. The technique is super cool, inspired by the human brain, redefining how we search for text, images, music, and more. Here’s one example... Mon, 20 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0700 https://scott.ai/2020-07-20-cool-way-to-search-text/ https://scott.ai/2020-07-20-cool-way-to-search-text/ Why speed read this, you ask? Learn how AI can plow through an inbox at superhuman speeds. Let an AI summarize and help you focus. That’s what I need. [ed. This is my first joint blog post with @chrissmattmann, a fellow AI nerd who happens to work in the CTO... Sun, 24 May 2020 00:00:00 -0700 https://scott.ai/2020-05-24-ultimate-speedreader/ https://scott.ai/2020-05-24-ultimate-speedreader/ Shortly before shelter in place restrictions, I was on a Hangout with Kelsey Hightower. He pops onto the call with a podcast microphone, those fancy audio headsets, and amazing lighting. The sound quality was professional, over the top. He sounded like a radio DJ. I definitely wanted that! Afterwards I... Mon, 04 May 2020 00:00:00 -0700 https://scott.ai/2020-05-04-audio-like-a-boss/ https://scott.ai/2020-05-04-audio-like-a-boss/ I have a mental model for AI. I find the model useful for understanding deeply complex, mathematical techniques as well as abstract, high-level coding in AI programs. If you’ve never really understood what a “tensor” was, or how “TensorFlow” got its name, this post is for you. To me, “tensors”... Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0800 https://scott.ai/2019-11-25-build-an-ai/ https://scott.ai/2019-11-25-build-an-ai/ Honey, clean the extra bedroom! Space guests are coming. Astronauts on the International Space Station conducted a space walk recently to install a new docking port for commercial guests. I guess you could say that AirBnB has now reached the heavens. A friend of mine recently purchased a ride to... Sat, 24 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://scott.ai/2019-08-24-weekly/ https://scott.ai/2019-08-24-weekly/ Half a century after the first moon landing, NASA plans to go back to space and explore Mars. This time it’s getting a boost from Silicon Valley tech companies. Scott Budman reports. I tried to land soundbites of “AI helps you make smarter, faster decisions” and “NASA, a pioneer in... Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://scott.ai/2019-08-15-nasa-fdl-google/ https://scott.ai/2019-08-15-nasa-fdl-google/ Deep Serengeti: Deep Mind has partnered with a leading zoologist, Dr. Meredith Palmer, to build an AI model for recognizing Tanzanian wildlife and other activities in the Serengeti plains. Researchers trained a model from the Snapshot Serengeti image dataset available on Zooniverse, a platform for citizen science. Details will be... Sun, 11 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://scott.ai/2019-08-11-weekly/ https://scott.ai/2019-08-11-weekly/ Welcome to the first edition of Memeified AI! Memeifieid AI summarizes important works in the AI field as memes and tweets, so that busy people can get a sense of what’s inside. This edition translates Andrew Ng’s wonderful, free, online book of “Machine Learning Yearning” into fun memes, tweets, and... Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://scott.ai/2019-08-06-memeified-ng/ https://scott.ai/2019-08-06-memeified-ng/ China’s Hottest Grandpa: Wang Deshun is China’s latest and oldest model at 80. He started lifting weights at 50. Fifteen years later he started riding horses. Seeking something a bit faster, he shifted to motorcycles at 78. “How [should] we live our lives as we get older?” he quips. “However... Mon, 05 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://scott.ai/2019-08-05-weekly/ https://scott.ai/2019-08-05-weekly/ Two years ago Quoc Le of Google Brain conceived of “AutoML,” where he used AI to design the neural networks of other AIs. The results were impressive, with AIs beating the hand-built networks of top research teams. DeepMind entered the fray this past week, applying sophisticated techniques that mimic evolution... Mon, 29 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://scott.ai/2019-07-29-weekly/ https://scott.ai/2019-07-29-weekly/ An MIT/IBM AI team trained a GAN on 45,000 portraits to turn your face into impressionist art. I’m excited by the introduction of neural networks into arts, culture and humanities. Software will soon be everywhere, in all disciplines. Last week McKinsey called out software as the top growth industry. No... Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://scott.ai/2019-07-22-weekly/ https://scott.ai/2019-07-22-weekly/ Researchers have created a “Google Map of the Brain” for a worm smaller than a grain of rice. This map gives us powerful insights into how our brains are wired, much like how we wire up artificial deep neural networks. The human genome project started with this little guy back... Mon, 15 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://scott.ai/2019-07-15-weekly/ https://scott.ai/2019-07-15-weekly/ I recently gave a talk at NVidia’s beautiful headquarters to a roomful of scientists. My goal was to talk about what motivates us at work, and get the teams excited about using some of the very same tools and techniques we use daily in our AI research. AI at Google... Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://scott.ai/2019-07-01-ai-at-google/ https://scott.ai/2019-07-01-ai-at-google/ Here’s a video from my panel participation on “Bracing for Impact: AI’s Impact on Society” in London, May, 2019. My favorite tweet from the panel occurred after they asked me what I thought about face recognition AI. Just don’t do it, folks, until we figure out how to use the... Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://scott.ai/2019-06-16-bloomberg-panel/ https://scott.ai/2019-06-16-bloomberg-panel/ Google.org invited me to talk about the story behind Applied AI in the cloud, as part of the kickoff program for the 2019 AI for Good award recipients. The week long program occurred during the first week of June, 2019 near Google’s San Francisco Office. Video Thu, 06 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://scott.ai/2019-06-06-ai-for-good/ https://scott.ai/2019-06-06-ai-for-good/ Video and slides from my talk at SIFMA 2019 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in May, 2019. Video Slides Advanced AI for People in a Hurry from Scott Penberthy Tue, 28 May 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://scott.ai/2019-05-28-ai-for-busy-people/ https://scott.ai/2019-05-28-ai-for-busy-people/ Here’s a demonstration of what Mike Bostock calls embeddable Observable notebooks. Game code is pulled live from a larger, more comprehensive notebook seen here with the original notebook source. Score: High Score: Wait. That’s so random, Scott, why is a game stuck on your site about AI? Well, I’ve been... Mon, 27 May 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://scott.ai/2019-05-27-helloworld/ https://scott.ai/2019-05-27-helloworld/ OK, I have p5 running. Let’s see if I can add some interactivity! I Googled and found a hacky inplementation of Atari Breakout in processing. I ported it – and all of its global variables and complete lack of good coding practive, but I digress – and got it running... Fri, 10 May 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://scott.ai/2019-05-10-breakout/ https://scott.ai/2019-05-10-breakout/ I’d like to add code to this site. I’ve been playing with p5.js lately, a javascript implementation of Processing. Or, as I like to call it, “computer science for poets.” P5 lets creative minds use computer software as a paintbrush, generating art that combines the best of humans and machines.... Thu, 09 May 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://scott.ai/2019-05-09-hellocolor/ https://scott.ai/2019-05-09-hellocolor/ Google Ventures recently invested in UI Path, a partner of Google Cloud. We’re super excited about the potential of robotic process automation. UI Path leaders made a simple insight. As humans, we often sit in front of a screen (pixels). We then choose actions to affect an outcome (typing, the... Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://scott.ai/2019-04-03-ui-path/ https://scott.ai/2019-04-03-ui-path/