Deep Inside The Mind Of Media

Courthouse Hotel Soho - 28 November 2019

The Event in Review

Matt Armstrong-Barnes

Chief Technology Officer for AI, EMEA, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

On Thursday 28th November HPE & NVIDIA hosted more than 50 people from across the Media sector to get to grips with the impact Artificial Intelligence will have. It was great to see such a large audience for the event and high levels of interest around AI. Throughout the afternoon we had an unprecedented number of questions across a broad variety of topics. It became clear that most of companies represented in the audience feel they are only at the beginning of their AI journey. However, with so much hype and promise around AI a lot of people are keen to get down to the nitty-gritty, which means asking the questions like; where are we with AI today and how can it help me?

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Matt Armstrong-Barnes

The Other Presenters



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Jamie Allen

EMEA Enterprise Solutions Specialist, NVIDIA   

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Neil Harris

Independent Technology & Workflow Consultant

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What We Covered

Session 1

Part 1

  • Today’s “AI” is almost all machine learning, and almost all machine learning is deep learning. To open Session 1, Neil explained deep learning from first principles, including the underlying mathematics. 
  • He demonstrated how artificial neural networks scale, from a single neuron to billions of neurons, allowing us to model extremely complex things, such as language, vision and speech.
  • Training these complex models is difficult, much more so than running them, and it is a process of trial and error.
  • It is not magic, there are project risks, and there can also be unexpected consequences.
  • But the genie is out of the bottle, and deep learning is here to stay. How will it be used and how do you educate yourself to use it well?
  • Project scope, budgets and timescales
  • In-house development vs outsourcing to specialists

Part 2

  • NVIDIA’s Jamie Allan and Miguel Martinez took us through the how GPU computing has become one of the major components of accelerated computing and helps enable more businesses to fast track their research and development.

Part 3

  • HPE's Matt Armstrong-Barnes looked at the 6 key challenges of going on the AI journey and how to ensure it goes as smoothly as possible. He got out his Deep Learning Cookbook and talked about deep learning technical architecture.

Part 4

  • Matt moderated a group discussion about the finer points of starting, staffing, resourcing and managing a deep learning project.
  • This included the pros and cons of in-house development vs outsourcing to specialist service providers.

Session 2

  • In the second session of the afternoon, Jamie was joined by two amazing AI startups operating in the Media & Entertainment space, DeepZen and Synthesia.
  • Together, they will discuss cutting edge applications of AI such as human voice with emotion and context, advanced translation for video dubbing and more.
  • They also explored some of the brand new research areas that are being worked on for both synthesising and generating content as well as the future of predictive AI and recommendation engines.
  • Through all of these applications, they discussed both the business opportunity and the science behind the different Deep Neural Networks used to create them.

The Partners who also Presented



Synthesia

Synthesia
CEO Victor Riparbelli Rasmussen | victor@synthesia.io

DeepZen

DeepZen
CEO Kerem Sozugecer | kerems@deepzen.io

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NVIDIA

NVIDIA

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