Artificial Intelligence

and its scopes in Nepal

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Sushil Thapa

Machine Learning Engineer

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Session Outline

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Artificial Intelligence

• Introduction
• Applications
• Current Scenario - World
• Current Scenario - Nepal
• How to become AI Engineer
• Q&A (10 mins)

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What is Artificial Intelligence?

AI

Artificial Intelligence

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AI

Artificial Intelligence

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AI

Artificial Intelligence

(Let’s talk about this)

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Human-like-Intelligence

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• Looking
• Listening
• Thinking
• Remembering
• Working

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Human Intelligence

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Looking

Listening

Thinking

Remembering

Working

Human brain recognising patterns

“Intelligence: The ability to learn and solve problems.”

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Artificial Intelligence:

a tool/technique to make machines as INTELLIGENT as HUMAN.

(or even more)

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Artificial Intelligence

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Machine Learning

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Why should machines learn from data ?

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“Field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed.”

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• Arthur Samuel, 1959

ML

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If the image has:

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• 4 legs
• Flat surface to sit on
• Backrest

PSEUDO CODE

Then, It’s chair !!

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If the image has:

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• 4 legs
• Flat surface to sit on
• Backrest

PSEUDO CODE

Then, It’s chair !!

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If the image has:

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• 4 legs
• Flat surface to sit on
• Backrest

PSEUDO CODE

Then, It’s chair !!

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??!!!!

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One of the solutions is to

make machines learn from EXAMPLES

as HUMAN.

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Artificial Intelligence Applications

Email spam filtering

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A lot of times people don’t know what they want until you show it to them:

- Steve Jobs

Recommender System: Product

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Computer Vision: Face Detection, Object Detection

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Image generation

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Source: Gau-GAN: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/research/ai-playground/

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Avatarify

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This AI Powered Tool Lets You Become Anyone During Your Zoom Skype Video Calls.

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For example, you can Zoom into your meeting as Einstein so people will take you seriously.

Others: Google’s smart compose

And many more...

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Session Outline

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Artificial Intelligence

• The WHAT
• The WHY
• The WHERE
• The HOW
• The THREAT

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Why AI is important?

Andrew Ng

Professor, Stanford Former Chief Scientist, Baidu

Co-founder, Coursera

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“Just as the Industrial Revolution freed up a lot of humanity from physical drudgery, I think AI has the potential to free up the human from lot of the mental drudgery.”

“AI is the new electricity.”

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The AI Race

“Whoever leads in artificial intelligence in 2030 will rule the world until 2100”

• Future Development blog, www.brookings.edu

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Investments on the rise

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In artificial intelligence, job openings are rising faster than job seekers

Postings per million�(4-week moving average)

Searches per million�(4-week moving average)

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“58 Million” AI Jobs by 2022 (WEF)

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“...and

It’s all

happening

so fast…”

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No one before has seen the change you have seen.

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It’s nothing compared to the change that is coming.

Career Prospects in AI

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AI project development life cycle

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source: workera.ai

• Data Scientist
• Software Engineer, ML
• ML Engineer
• Data Analyst
• AI Researcher

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AI Career Pathways (Track)

source: workera.ai

Artificial Intelligence in Nepal

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• Fusemachines Pvt. Ltd.
• Nepali ASR, Drones, OCR, Image Recognition, Chatbots, Object Detection etc.
• Language Technology Kendra
• Bhasha Sanchar, Nepali Spell Checker, Dobhase
• Paaila Technology
• Pari, Ginger Waiter Robot.
• NAAMII
• Leapfrog
• Docsumo
• Ekbana and others . . .

reference: https://github.com/amitness/ml-companies-in-nepal

Emerging AI Companies in Nepal

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https://jfgagne.ai/talent-2019/

Top-tier conference researchers

Total: 22,400

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US: 10,295

China: 2525

India: 555

Nepal: 5

Talent is Everywhere,

But Opportunity is not.

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DEMOCRATIZE AI

Bonus Topic

How to be AI Engineer?

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What helped me

• University : ECE / BEX
• Robotics Club, International robotics competitions
• Electives: Data Mining, AI, Big data
• AI based Major Project
• Additional Learning
• online courses(Coursera, edX)
• AI/ML Books
• personal project implementations
• got into Fusemachines AI Fellowship 2017
• Researcher & Developer, Spark Technology (~1 year)
• Machine Learning Engineer, Fusemachines (~3 years, present)

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What I struggled with: Foundations

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Maths Foundations

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• Linear Algebra

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• Probability and Statistics

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• Calculus

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• Numerical Optimization

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Online resources for Maths

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• Linear Algebra By Gilbert Strang (Youtube)

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• 3Blue1Brown Essence of Maths series (Youtube)

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• Others <Google is your friend>

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• Coursera courses (Free for Nepal or .edu)
• Machine Learning by Andrew NG
• Deep Learning Specialization

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• edX courses like AI Micromasters by Columbia University

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• Artificial Intelligence related Nanodegrees (Udacity)

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• Top University AI Courses on YouTube

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University courses + Free Online AI Courses

Additional Foundations

• Algorithms and Data Structures (Python)
• Data Science Tools (Numpy, Pandas, TF)

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�AI Education Program

1. fuse | classroom
2. fuse | ai

AI ENABLED EDUCATION PLATFORM

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Learning 3.0

Learning 1.0

Learning 2.0

Learning 3.0

• Classroom + Paper based Learning

• Digital Learning

• AI assisted Learning

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Learning 3.0

Similar to computers to mobile jump without many laptops in Nepal can make this Learning 1.0 to Learning 3.0 jump

Learning 1.0

Learning 2.0

Learning 3.0

• Classroom + Paper based Learning

• Digital Learning

• AI assisted Learning
• fuse | classroom

ENABLING QUALITY AI EDUCATION WORLDWIDE

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Our University Courses

Our Expectation

Reality

Learning path to become a

Machine Learning Engineer through fuse.ai

BLENDED LEARNING

• online + onsite
• theory + practical

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Final Thoughts . .

• We are in the midst of an AI revolution
• AI is already set to be one of the most impactful technologies of the future.
• The best way to get into it is to start. Just start with whatever resource you’d find appropriate.

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The path doesn’t look easy

But TRUST ME

IT’S WORTH IT!

KEEP LEARNING

sushil.thapa@fusemachines.com

www.linkedin.com/in/thapasushil

education@fusemachines.com | www.fusemachines.com | www.fuse.ai

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New York, NY 10012

1-800-506-3873

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Kamaladi, Kathmandu

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Nepal

THANK YOU

Questions?