Practitioner's Perspective on Artificial Intelligence: A Curious Career Path from Biologist to AI Scientist
Houssam Nassif, a biologist turned Artificial Intelligence scientist, shares insights on the ubiquitous nature of AI, its applications like self-driving cars and ad targeting, and the democratization of AI tools. He emphasizes the importance of data for AI, the variety of tools available, and the need for deep neural networks in modern AI projects. The timeline of AI projects and developments at Microsoft exemplifies the evolution and impact of AI technologies.
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A practitioners perspective on Artificial Intelligence UK Lebanon Tech Hub Houssam Nassif Houssam.nassif@gmail.com 1
Background Me in one word: Curious Career path: A biologist turned Artificial Intelligence scientist Biomedical research hospital, Department of Natural Resources, Cisco, Google, Amazon http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~hous21/ 2
ubiquitous and mundane Spam filter Routing (network, cellular, transportation) Text/Speech/Image recognition Self-driving cars Recommender systems Personalized and curated content Ad targeting, market segmentation Computers learn and function without being explicitly programmed 4
Do I need AI/ML? Simple algorithms take you a long way AI needs lots of data and/or good data Plenty of black box and out of the box tools Democratizing playing field: deep nets No Free Lunch Theorem 6
ML projects in production 100% 90% 6 13 80% 70% 60% Evangelisation 12 Development 50% 18 Research 40% Problem Identification 30% 7 20% 7 10% 3 3 0% TrueSkill AdPredictor
Timelines Microsoft examples, Ralf Herbrich Work with Game Devs Beta Test Research Research Research Develop Simulation work and Tool Development for Halo 3 Work with Bungie Tool Develop (Halo 3) Halo 2 Code Devel Work with Game Devs TrueSkill (41 months) Dec 2005 Sep 2004 Jul 2004 Dec 2004 Mar 2005 Nov 2005 Mar 2006 Jun 2006 Mar 2007 May 2007 Jul 2007 Nov 2007 Working with Development Team on scalable Training Researc h Analysis Problem Identify AdCenter Compete Offline Evaluation Beta Test Ad predictor (28 months) Development of Tools Mar 2007 Mar 2009 Aug 2007 May 2007 Dec 2008 Jun 2008 Mar 2008 Jan 2007 8
