This document summarizes a presentation on artificial intelligence (AI) opportunities and challenges given by Sylvain Carle at Le Web à Québec in April 2017. The presentation discusses the potential of deep learning and AI, as well as opportunities for startups in AI application development. It also covers challenges regarding the ethical and legal issues raised by AI, and the roles and responsibilities of public organizations in developing policies around AI.

1. Intelligence Artificielle
Opportunités et défis
(pour les développeurs, entre autre)
Sylvain Carle
Associé @ RealVentures
Le Web à Québec
Avril 2017

2. Pire. Sujet. Ever.
Tellement pas original
(pour tout le monde)
Sylvain Carle
Le Web à Québec
Avril 2017

3. • intelligence artificielle: l'immense potentiel de l'apprentissage profond
• deep learning avec tensorflow
• apprendre l'apprentissage automatique
• marketing et intelligence artificielle : état des lieux et regard sur le futur
• la marque est morte. vive l’intelligente artificielle.
• table ronde 1: agents conversationnels et conception d'intelligence artificielle
• l’intelligence artificielle, opportunité ou menace?
• intelligence artificielle et big data pour pmes: une approche simple par l’exemple
• what ux design can teach ai
• design & intelligence artificielle

4. IA: pourquoi et comment
Naviguer l’émergence
de l’intelligence artificielle
Sylvain Carle
Associé @ RealVentures
Le Web à Québec
Avril 2017

5. https://twitter.com/sylvain
Je suis @sylvain
Je viens de l’internet.
Geek assumé.
Nul n’est prophète en
son pays, le retour de
l’enfant prodigue, pis
toute.
Un jour ou j’avais
encore trop “perdu de
temps” sur internet, je
me suis demandé si
ça pouvait devenir ça
ma job. C’est ça.

6. Investir dans les startups qui misent sur
l’intelligence artificielle pour changer la
donne.
https://realventures.com

7. “AI First” c’est le nouveau “Mobile First”.

8. The Internet is providing the fabric on which the
Information age is built and provides the network
infrastructure to turn software into massively scalable
platforms, whether centralized or decentralized (blockchain)
enabling new services, products, experiences and business
models;
Mobility is enabling 3 billion people to interact with their
information and with each other anywhere at anytime and;
Connectivity added to other devices such as TVs, watches,
cars, drones, clothes, robots, homes, AR/VR head mounted
displays offers new ways to interact with and experience the
world’s information;
Continued improvements in Computing efficiency for
different types of workloads whether in the cloud or at the
edge is enabling new platforms and applications to emerge
such as robotics, VR/AR, AI, blockchain, smart devices, etc.
The storage, usage and display (UI) of Big Data we and our
businesses generate enable faster, more impactful, data driven
decisions.
The digital revolution is now disrupting all
aspects of society including retail, transportation,
education, healthcare, financial services, work, real estate,
energy, government, human communication, manufacturing,
genomics, nanotechnology, etc.
La (r)évolution numérique touche l’ensemble des secteurs

9. The Internet is providing the fabric on which the
Information age is built and provides the network
infrastructure to turn software into massively scalable
platforms, whether centralized or decentralized (blockchain)
enabling new services, products, experiences and business
models;
Mobility is enabling 3 billion people to interact with their
information and with each other anywhere at anytime and;
Connectivity added to other devices such as TVs, watches,
cars, drones, clothes, robots, homes, AR/VR head mounted
displays offers new ways to interact with and experience the
world’s information;
Continued improvements in Computing efficiency for
different types of workloads whether in the cloud or at the
edge is enabling new platforms and applications to emerge
such as robotics, VR/AR, AI, blockchain, smart devices, etc.
The storage, usage and display (UI) of Big Data we and our
businesses generate enable faster, more impactful, data driven
decisions.
The digital revolution is now disrupting all
aspects of society including retail, transportation,
education, healthcare, financial services, work, real estate,
energy, government, human communication, manufacturing,
genomics, nanotechnology, etc.
La (r)évolution numérique touche l’ensemble des secteurs

10. A I
D ATA U I
CO N N ECT I V I T YM O B I L E
I N T E R N E T
S O F T WA R E
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L’évolution du stack

11. Google acquired Deepmind for $650M, launched Alphago,
GPU cloud, AI datacenter optimization, tensorflow, imagecloud,
translate, self driving cars, Health, and training all engineers in AI.
Notable quotes: Sundai Pichai - “we will evolve in computing
from a mobile-first to an AI-first world”; Eric Schmidt –
“Machine learning will cause every successful IPO win in 5
years”, donated $4.5M to MILA in MTL for AI research;
Facebook open sourced AI framework, opened Messenger
to bots, acquired Wit.ai, newsfeed powered by AI, launched
Facebook AI Research (FAIR) lead by Yann Lecun, vision to build
an AI agent per user;
Amazon: launched Echo (home voice platform), Alexa
(intelligent personal assistant), AI Cloud, acquired Evi for $26M
in 2012), acquired Angel.ai for chatbots, working on drones;
Microsoft acquired Maluuba, launched GPU cloud, Cortana,
Microsoft AI Research, smart bot framework, invested in
Element AI and donated $7M to MILA in MTL for AI research;
Apple acquired Siri for $400M, recruited Ruslan
Salakhutdinov from Carnegie Mellon (ex-UofT) to lead AI
research team, started open sourcing AI research, publicly
stated importance of AI to success;
Others worth mentioning: Tesla, Uber (Acquired Otto
for $680M, Geometric Intelligence) and leading car
manufacturers with self-driving cars (GM bought Cruise for
$1B), Nvidia and Intel (Nervana for $250M) for AI
semiconductors, Salesforce (Metamind and Tempo AI
acquisitions, Einstein initiative), Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba,
Samsung (Viv), Netflix, IBM (Watson), Twitter (Magic Pony), GE
(Bit Stew Systems);
Every successful company will require applied AI research to win and the
market leaders are showing the way, acquiring 140 AI companies since 2011
including 40 in 2016 and hiring all the AI talent they can find…

12. Les leaders de l’industrie ne peuvent pas tout faire.
Il existe des tonnes d’opportunités pour les startups
avec un fort bassin de talent pour développer ces
produits et expériences en “mode IA”.
Soit vous rejoignez la marine royale, la garde côtière, ou
alors vous êtes de pirates.

13. https://pirates.quebec/
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Pirate_Flag_of_Jack_Rackham.svg/1280px-Pirate_Flag_of_Jack_Rackham.svg.png

14. http://www.pinterest.com/pin/125608277076985104/

15. Not for redistribution 15
Element AI as co-founded by Yoshua Bengio, (founding father of AI renaissance) JF Gagné (co-founder of Planora,
Chief Product officer at JDA Software), Nicolas Chapados (PhD, co-founded Apstat with Yoshua, Planora and hedge
fund) and Real Ventures to build the world’s leading applied AI research lab and implementation platform to launch AI
first solutions in partnership with large corporations and innovative startups;
Element helps companies make money with AI from fundamental research, to applied research, to application/
solution development to implementation, monetization and/or joint ventures;
Element’s research lab is uniquely connected to the world best academic ecosystems including MILA, McGill,
Poly, UofT, UBC, Microsoft and Cortana Research through its fellowship program and partnership with Microsoft;
Element completed initial round of founding co-led by Microsoft Ventures and Real Ventures in October ’16;
Element provides Real Ventures with credibility in the AI space, access to its network in AI academia and
corporations, due diligence support, proprietary deal flow and applied AI research support for portfolio companies;
Real Ventures and Element AI are collaborating to build the AI ecosystem in Canada with projects including
an AI Cloud, centers of excellence and world class events;
We are recognized leaders of the Canadian AI ecosystem as a
result of co-founding applied AI research leader Element AI

16. http://www.pinterest.com/pin/125608277076955168/

17. 1. La capacité d’accumulation (collecte, entreposage)
2. La rétrospective (voir, comprendre ce qui s’est passé)
3. L’analyse des signaux en temps réel (aggrégation et alertes)
4. Pouvoir émettre des recommendations (données et actions passées)
5. Capacité de prédictions (avec haut degré de certitude)
6. Prescription et automatisation (pur numérique et instrumentation)
Le modèle de maturité des données massives (big data)
Inspiré de https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Maturity_Model

18. 1. La capacité d’accumulation (collecte, entreposage)
2. La rétrospective (voir, comprendre ce qui s’est passé)
3. L’analyse des signaux en temps réel (aggrégation et alertes)
4. Pouvoir émettre des recommendations (données et actions passées)
5. Capacité de prédictions (avec haut degré de certitude)
6. Prescription et automatisation (pur numérique et instrumentation)
Domaines d’applications émergentes de l’intelligence artificielle
Le modèle de maturité des données massives (big data)

19. 1. IA générale (AGI) vs IA appliquée (narrow, specialized)
2. La définition de l’IA change tout le temps…
“John McCarthy, who invented the name Artificial Intelligence, noted, the
definition of specialized AI is changing all of the time. Specifically, once a task
formerly thought to characterize artificial intelligence becomes routine
— like the aforementioned chess-playing, or Go, or a myriad of other taken-for-
granted computer abilities — we no longer call it artificial intelligence.”
3. IA comme “intelligence augmentée”
Le contexte actuel pour de l’intelligence artificielle
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/1/144824-artificial-intelligence-past-and-future/fulltext
https://stratechery.com/2017/the-arrival-of-artificial-intelligence/

20. Les nouvelles capacités par l’intelligence artificielle
Le point de bascule: quand la machine dépasse l’humain moyen dans la
reconnaissance et l’interprétation des signaux dit “intelligents”. Le language, le
monde qui nous entoure (prolifération de senseurs).
1. La lecture de textes (NLP sémantique).
2. La compréhension de la voix (NLP audio).
3. La reconnaissance visuelle (CV, classification).
4. Niveaux multiples d’interprétation et d’abstraction.
5. Apprentissage profonds, non-supervisé, par contre-exemples.
6. Mise en réseau et en comm

21. Les attributs qui propulsent l’intelligence artificielle
La “tempête parfaite”.
1. Publication ouverte. https://arXiv.org
2. Un graphe des chercheurs facile d’accès.
https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=deep+learning+paper
3. La plupart de librairies de code en logiciel libre.
4. Beaucoup de cours gratuits en ligne.
5. Une communauté accueillante (l’esprit pédagogue de Y. Bengio)
6. Instituts de recherches “plusse meilleurs” : CIFAR, MILA, IVADO.
7. Accès aux données de références et nouvelles données

22. Les ressources pour aller plus vite
1. Tous les éléments mentionnés il y a 2 minutes…
2. Les APIs de grands joueurs (IBM Watson, Amazon, Google, Microsoft,
Nuance et tant d’autres).
3. Les frameworks et API de startups (MLDB, Fuzzy.AI, plot.ly, Automat)
4. Les meetups de AI, ML, DL de Montréal (et Québec?)
5. Les grappes et super-grappes IA du Québec et du Canada
6. L’accélération des accélérateurs, la mutualisation des expertises
7. La nouvelle “Alliance IA du Québec” (dès demain, non?)
8. Vos idées?

23. 1. L’impact économique et social de l’intelligence artificielle de la numérisation,
de l’augmentation et de l’automatisation.
2. Les questions éthiques et légales soulevées par l’IA.
3. Les rôles et responsabilités des organisations publiques en IA, vs 1 et 2.
4. Le soutien à l’éducation, à la recherche et la mise en application de l’IA.
5. Le développement de nouvelles institutions et pratiques locales et
internationales de gouvernance.
6. Le plan IA Québec?
Les défis devant nous cette année et pour 5, 10, 25 ans

24. Quelques liens (du bon stock)
1. Building an AI Startup: Realities & Tactics. http://mattturck.com/2016/09/29/building-an-ai-startup/
2. O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Newsletter. http://www.oreilly.com/ai/newsletter.html
3. Highlights from the O'Reilly AI Conference in New York 2016. https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/keynotes-from-ai-new-york-2016
4. The Competitive Landscape for Machine Intelligence (2016). https://hbr.org/2016/11/the-competitive-landscape-for-machine-intelligence et https://
www.oreilly.com/ideas/the-current-state-of-machine-intelligence-3-0
5. The US Administration’s Report on the Future of Artificial Intelligence. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/10/12/administrations-report-
future-artificial-intelligence et Stratégie France IA - http://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/cid114739/rapport-strategie-france-i.a.-pour-le-
developpement-des-technologies-d-intelligence-artificielle.html
6. 5 Big Predictions for Artificial Intelligence in 2017. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603216/5-big-predictions-for-artificial-intelligence-in-2017/
7. A Sneak Peek at the State of AI 2016. https://medium.com/swlh/a-sneak-peek-at-the-state-of-ai-2016-d5d079e0c4de
8. Big Data et Intelligence Artificielle (panel IVADO des startups IA de Montréal). https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=g66X1lQpYZk&feature=youtu.be#t=72m49s
9. https://twitter.com/search?q=%22machine%20learning%22%20OR%20%22deep%20learning%22%20OR%20%22artificial%20intelligence%22%20OR
%20AI%20OR%20ML%20OR%20DL%20OR%20%23AI%20from%3Afroginthevalley%20since%3A2015-01-03%20until%3A2017-04-05&src=typd

25. IA: pourquoi et comment
Merci!
Sylvain Carle
@sylvain
sylvain@realventures.com
Le Web à Québec
Avril 2017