smart machines - the future is here
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Self-driving cars, drones, household robots, smart devices etc.. A perfect storm is emerging. But what will the next hype be called? Smart Machines is a strong contestant for the next hype. In 2004 it was Social Media, in 2007 Cloud Computing was coined and in 2011 everybody started talking and writing about Big Data. Four years have passed and year 2015 calls for the next hype building on top of existing ones. Enter Smart Machines.TRANSCRIPT
Smart machinesThe Future Is Here© Immo Salo
What will we call them?● Smart machines, Intelligent machines,
Brilliant machines or what
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?
Google Trends on Sep 2014
Smart Machines is winning?Placing the bets, the usual suspects:● Hype Cycle of Smart Machines released
(Gartner, Jul 2014)
● McKinsey writes about Smart Machines(McKinsey Quarterly, Sep 2014)
● Economist writes about Smart Machines(“The Age of Smart Machines”, May 2014)
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New technologies are enablers● The idea of Smart
Machines is not new, but now the time is right
→ perfect storm
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Innovations are the key● Most important innovations will be
combinatory innovations*● Creative destruction will face those not
willing or able to take action
* The Second Machine Age, Brynjolfsson & McAfeewww.smartmachines.fi
Phases of competition1. Wondering
○ These machines are amazing!
2. Innovations, phase 1○ Changing the way business is done within existing industries
(transport, retail sales, warehouses, production)
3. Innovations, phase 2○ Creating new industries
4. The Age of Ecosystems○ High-technologization of industries, ecosystem-level competition
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Timing and technology● Smart Machines is built on top of existing
technologies and innovations○ Cloud computing○ Big data○ Internet of Everything○ Robotics
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CategoriesCloud computing
● IaaS● PaaS● SaaS
Big Data
● Volume● Variety● Velocity
Internet of Everything
● People● Things● Places● Information
Robotics
● Industrial● Service● Consumer
Smart Machines is a combination of existing technologies and concepts
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Cloud Computing is the brains behind Smart Machines
The Role of Cloud Computing● Cloud Computing is an enabler of Smart Machines
“Imagine a robot that finds an object that it's never seen or used before—say, a plastic cup. The robot could simply send an image of the cup to the cloud and receive back the object’s name, a 3-D model, and instructions on how to use it”J. Kuffner, Google
IEEE: Jan 2011, http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/cloud-roboticswww.smartmachines.fi
Advanced Analytics provides wisdom to Smart Machines
The Role of Big Data● Analytical capabilities provided by cloud services are
evolving fast“Dremel can scan 35 billion rows without an index in tens of seconds. Dremel, the cloud-powered massively parallel query service, shares Google’s infrastructure, so it can parallelize each query and run it on tens of thousands of servers simultaneously. You can see the economies of scale inherent in Dremel. An Inside Look at Google BigQuery
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The Role of Big Data● Advaced Analytics helps to model and predict the
future“Machine learning–mining historical data with computer systems to predict future trends or behavior–touches more and more lives every day. Search engines, online recommendations, ad targeting, virtual assistants, demand forecasting, fraud detection, spam filters–machine learning powers all these modern services. But these uses barely scratch the surface of what's possible. Microsoft Azure Machine Learning
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/www.smartmachines.fi
Robotics makes digitalization visible in production, services, transportation and all other areas of life
Sales of Industrial Robots
Worldrobotics.org: http://www.worldrobotics.org/uploads/tx_zeifr/June_04__2014_PI_IFR_World_Robot_Market.pdf
Record high sales of industrial robots in 2013
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Drones - soon flying everywhere
https://www.sensefly.com/drones/ebee.html
No piloting skills requiredThe eBee takes off, flies and lands autonomously.
The artificial intelligence incorporated in the senseFly autopilot continuously analyzes data from the Inertial Measurement Unit and the onboard GPS and takes care of all aspects of the flight mission.
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Consumer robotics
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/jibo-the-world-s-first-family-robot
Jibokickstarter project, shipping 2015
What is Jibo? It’s a little pod with a motorized swivel, equipped with cameras, microphones and a display. It recognizes faces and voices, and can act as a personal assistant by setting reminders, delivering messages and offering to take group photos. It also serves as a telepresence robot for video chat.Time.com
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IBM SyNAPSE chip● Computer chip imitating the
brain (introduced in Aug 2014)
IBM: http://www.research.ibm.com/cognitive-computing/neurosynaptic-chips.shtml
The architecture can solve a wide class of problems from vision, audition, and multi-sensory fusion, and has the potential to revolutionize the computer industry by integrating brain-like capability into devices where computation is constrained by power and speed.
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Internet of ThingsThere are 50 to 500 billion connected devices in 2020
IDC, General Electric
Intel Edison● Remember Raspberry Pi?
● Intel Edison takes tiny computers to the next level
● It can be the brains of almost any device (width is only 35 mm)
Intel: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/do-it-yourself/edison.html
The Intel® Edison development platform is the first in a series of low-cost, product-ready, general purpose compute platforms that help lower the barriers to entry for entrepreneurs in the Internet of Things (IoT).
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3,5 cm
Spark● Spark is a Wi-Fi development
kit for connecting devices aka “things” to internet
Spark: https://www.spark.io/
The Spark Core is our tiny Wi-Fi development kit that helps you build a connected product in hours, not weeks. The Spark Core is hooked to the Cloud out of the box, and the entire design is open source.
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The Smart Machine era will be the most disruptive in the history of IT.Gartner Oct 2013
Categories of Smart Machines● Movers
○ Example: Google “Self-Driving car”
● Doers○ Example: Rething Robotics “Baxter”
● Sages○ Example: IBM “Watson”
IBM: Oct 2013, http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/blog/rise-smart-machines-nothing-fear-now-austinwww.smartmachines.fi
Movers
Google Self-Driving Car: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_driverless_carwww.smartmachines.fi
Doers
Rething robotics: http://www.rethinkrobotics.com/baxter/www.smartmachines.fi
Sages
IBM: http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/what-is-watson.htmlwww.smartmachines.fi
Role of Smart Machines● Assist people● Advise people● Observe and help people● Extend people
● Replace people?...
IBM: Oct 2013, http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/blog/rise-smart-machines-nothing-fear-now-austinwww.smartmachines.fi
The Future of Employment
Oxford Martin School: Sep 2013, http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf
“According to our estimate, 47 percent of total US employment is in the high risk category, meaning that associated occupations are potentially automatable over some unspecified number of years, perhaps a decade or two“The future of employment: how suspectible are jobs to computerisation?Frey & Osborne, Oxford Martin School
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What next?● Innovations
● Investments
● Creative destruction
● New skills needed