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Impressions and take-aways from the Las Vegas AI Conference
by Rich Ziskind, Howard Rankin, Michael Hentschel and Grant Renier
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Announcing the pre-release of Howard Rankin's new book, on Amazon:
Sherlock Holmes versus Artificial Intelligence: The Race to Solve a Murder Mystery
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The Ai4 Conference at the MGM Grand will rank as a truly seminal event. The energy of the attendees can be characterized as exceptionally high. The age profile was quite young. This is a dynamic field populated by first adapters and, most importantly, tech and financial companies looking to catch the next generation opportunities.
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The Ai4 Conference at the MGM Grand will rank as a truly seminal event. The energy of the attendees can be characterized as exceptionally high. The age profile was quite young. This is a dynamic field populated by first adapters and, most importantly, tech and financial companies looking to catch the next generation opportunities.
I attended several of the presentations in addition to speaking with a near unending wave of curious visitors to the IntualityAI booth. Clearly the processing speeds will enable countless applications. Years ago I led a study for the Air Force of potential applications of the satellite based GPS System. Our group of 'experts' was only able to identify a limited number/type of the system's future utility. Predicting important AI applications in our lives is a comparable challenge.
Buckle your seat belts for the start of the follow-up period.
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by Rich Ziskind PhD, CEO IntualitySports, nuclear engineering and physics, business founder, professional poker
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Our message and technology clearly resonated with many people.
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First, it was wonderful to spend time with my IntualityAI colleagues face-to-face in real time. Traveling with Grant to Las Vegas was a pleasure, as was hanging out with him and Michael, Peter, Rich and Kyle. We needed all of us.
It was very encouraging seeing so many of the attendees, from different areas in artificial intelligence, so interested in what we have to offer. At various points all six of us were engaged in talking with numerous people genuinely intrigued by our predictive abilities and the science behind them.
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I was expecting some people to be cynical about the inclusion of human intuition and decision-making in AI solutions but from my experience there were just two people out of the probably two hundred that we engaged with at our booth, that expressed such concerns. For the most part, people were very engaged, interested and appreciated the merging of human intelligence with AI. Our message and technology clearly resonated with many people.
I was particularly interested in how some organizations in the medical field were approaching the application of AI in healthcare. Some were using AI to improve clinical studies and a couple of others using it to improve patient communication, a necessary upgrade. For example, one organization is using AI to follow up with patients and keep them updated on appointments and reminders about their condition. However, I didn’t see anything potentially as revolutionary as IntualityAI’s improved predictions for conditions like epileptic seizures, arrythmias and other conditions. Those are game-changers.
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by Howard Rankin PhD, Science Director, psychology and cognitive neuroscience
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We can engage AI professionals in good conversations about Behavioral Science
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It’s hard for us participants to develop real perspective on what a conference of myriad subtopics is about as a whole, but I would say that to a great degree I was unimpressed by most of what was being said and presented. Maybe we as insiders already have had to absorb too much, or maybe we are thinking only at the bleeding edge. But I also had the sense that most attendees that were not presenting were just at the show getting their own first exposure to this new phenomenon of machine intelligence, about to truly challenge human intelligence.
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Many of the companies I talked to had no idea how to practically implement GPT or anything else the Conference was describing, they were simply curious, and the Conference offered no particularly practical paths to greater success.
Most attendees seemed to get the point that GPT represents a lot of useful tools that represent opportunities for small teams of programmers to disrupt the way things are done, by simply being much more efficient at generating meaningful language and images. A few, and evidently very few, AI professionals are perceiving that specifically GPT forms of AI are actually getting LESS smart over time.
A few, very very few, really gravitate to the richness of Human Experience, knowledge, and wisdom. We can engage AI professionals in good conversations about Behavioral Science and psychology, but this is not yet understood at all deeply. We have a long way to go to demonstrate that this is really a yawning Gap in machine ability to understand human decision making and probabilistic prediction.
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by Michael Hentschel, anthropologist, economist, venture capitalist
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Figuring out how to proceed next and maintain this new momentum
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We celebrated! The month's of preparation and the years of technology development and proof in real-world applications led to one of the best Italian meals I've ever had. If we looked pumped - or not - we came away with a new view of how our pitch that current AI is suffering from the missing link of human decision-making about the future. We had presented to a large room of attendees - maybe 400? - with standing room only around the back, and people squeezing in the doors.
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It was a surprise to see the uneducated interest in how we simulate human behavior. They appear to know its 'logical' but as yet are unfamiliar with the tools and logic to make it happen.
Our booth was the same. All five of us spent two days standing, individually meeting with representatives of tech companies, others interested in this technology and, most important, firms in the investment business. I was told that we had the busiest booth in the hall.
So, yes, we celebrated with wine and food, figuring out how to proceed next and maintain this new momentum.
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by Grant Renier, engineering, mathematics, behavioral science, economics
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