Michael Brost

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Man communicating with Man Man communicating with Machine

Coined the term Artificial Intelligence First Conference to discuss and debate AI

MIPS SPEC Linpack FLOPS STREAM

MIPS – Million Instructions Per Second Older way of calculating Speed Controversial

Flops- Floating-Point Operations Per Second (Cores x Clock x FLOPS)/Cycle 1 Cycle 4 Flops

Titan Cray Inc. 18,688 nodes 4,352 sqft 17.6 Petaflops

Unit Multiples Kilo Mega Giga Tera Peta Exa

Titan Cray Inc. 18,688 nodes 4,352 sqft 17.6 Petaflops 2.5 Million times faster! ~27 PFlops Potential

Titan Cray Inc. 18,688 nodes 4,352 sqft 17.6 Petaflops.7-1.8% of a Human Mind The Human Mind 88.5 cubic cm ~100 Billion Neurons Exaflops (1,000- 2,500 Petaflops)

Gordon Moore on Moores Law Number of transistors on integrated circuits would double every year for 10 years. –Moore Number of transistors on integrated circuits would double every year 18 months for 10 years. – Moore Computer performance would double every 18 months [due to increasing chip performance and technology]. – David House, 1975

Would the computer actually know what it was doing?

The theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence.

Not hooked up to the internet Downloaded many archives, encyclopedias and dictionaries to Watson One Problem ….

Language and context.

Solution? Evidence Profile

1993 First Web Search Engine W3 Catalog Highly inefficient

1996 BackRub Stanford Servers Larry Paige and Sergey Brin

1997 & 1998 Group acquires initial capital to Google Inc. A play on words of Googol 1 x 10 ^ 100 Google breaks Top 100 Web Site and Search Engines

Core Principles Its best to do one thing really, really well. Focus on the user and all else will follow. You can make money without doing evil.

Page Rank Location Time Existed Pages linked to the Website Page Rank Checker

Rebellion Research $7 million hedge fund 6 employees Mathematicians Computer Science Business Analysts

It's pretty clear that human beings aren't improving, but computers and algorithms are only getting faster and more robust. Spencer Greenberg Rebellion Research CEO

Star Software Program Collects stock data overnight 4,000+ stocks 70 different countries

150 points of view 12 different strategies $7 to $15 million

Cleaning up the environment Improved security systems Advanced medicine Diagnosing conditions ….

Its a bug that cars were invented before computers. Eric Schmidt Google Inc.

Numbers 90% Reduce the number of accidents by 90% 90% Reduce number of cars by 90% 405 Billion Save $405 Billion in revenue 3 3 States have passed laws 300, ,000 miles have been logged