1 of 15

Machine learning: not to destroy but to create

Dr Olga Isupova (oi260@bath.ac.uk)

TEDxBath University

28 November 2020

2 of 15

"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”

Prof Stephen Hawking

"We’re headed toward a situation where AI is vastly smarter than humans and I think that time frame is less than five years from now. But that doesn’t mean that everything goes to hell in five years. It just means that things get unstable or weird.”

Elon Musk

3 of 15

But machine learning can do good that has never been possible before

4 of 15

Simple automation

5 of 15

Simple automation

  • To run 1 experiment:
    • Open a file
    • Change a parameter
    • Click to run

​

​

​

​

20 experiments – good

50 experiments – excellent

6 of 15

Simple automation

  • To run 1 experiment:
    • Open a file
    • Change a parameter
    • Click to run

​

​

​

​

20 experiments – good

50 experiments – excellent

for i in {1..X}; do

cp run_template.m $((i))/run.m

cd $((i))

sed -i -e "s/XXX/$((i))/g" run.m

echo "Yes" | runmatlab run.m -mem 16G

cd ..

done;

  • To run X experiments:
    • Click to run:

​

​

​

​

​

​

400 experiments might be good

7 of 15

Imagine what we can do with “smart” automation…

8 of 15

What we are already doing with “smart” automation

9 of 15

Help visually impaired people to see

10 of 15

Help fighting human trafficking

11 of 15

Help identifying risk factors of COVID-19

12 of 15

Help prioritising the work of disaster responders

13 of 15

Create new tools to help conservation efforts

14 of 15

Create… to help artists

The model developed by Dimitris Papatheodoulou

15 of 15

If we do it right, we can do great