Gil Syswerda - AI and the Future

Sal' Syndicate: Click to Join Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is the whole ball game. Whoever gets it first will rule. Who's ahead and how to bet on them; this is only part of the excellent second chat with AI wiz Gil Syswerda. Highlights: Sal Daher Introduces Second Installment of Interview – AI and the Future Sponsors: Purdue University entrepreneurship, and Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish & Richardson "History is full of financial firms devising algorithms that work great in the past and don't work in the future." "...our back testing showed on average 15% returns per year, and our live performance was exactly that, 15% per year." "...we needed a supercomputer to run our algorithm. We built one. In the end, we spent upwards of a million dollars on this machine, and it took $10,000 a month in electricity to run it." Gil Syswerda Teams Up with the Legendary Paul Tudor Jones and His Hedge Fund via Percipio The Start of the Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis Breaks Gil's Algorithm and He Goes to Cash Investors Complain When Gil's Fund Goes to Cash in August of 2008 but by the End of The Year, They Think He's a Genius The Algorithm from Gil's Hedge Fund Finds Use at a Lead Generation Company Percipio became Jobcase which Is Heading to Unicorn Status After the Hedge Fund Experience Gil Returns to Angel Investing Gil "Busted" While Coding at Darwin's Coffee House Genetic Rule Induction Seminar at Babson – Big Turnout Machine Learning Talent Is Had to Get Even for the Legendary Paul Tudor Jones Gil Starts FeatureX to Look for Patterns in Satellite Imagery Machine Alpha Looked for Trades Based on Tudor Data Algorithms Required so Much Computing that AWS Bill Approached $2 million in One Year Gil Syswerda's Next Challenge Is Artificial General Intelligence "...if you're so smart, how come you're not a billionaire? The answer to that is I like to work on hard problems, hard technical problems." Sal Discusses Some of the AI Companies in His Universe: PathAI, Pilot.com and VistaPath The First Company to Build Artificial General Intelligence Will Rule Buy Google Shares Because DeepMind Is Doing Amazing Stuff and Could Win the AGI Race – What Else to Buy Jeff Hawkins – Thousand Brains Theory - Numenta AI Research Is Hugely Expensive Due to the Massive Computing Requirements