Artificial Intelligence and the Future with Joseph Sirosh
Where is Artificial Intelligence going at Microsoft? While at Connect in New York, Carl and Richard talked to Joseph Sirosh about his work with AI through the years and especially now while it's a new (and likely permanent) upswing. Sirosh talks about what it takes to let regular developers take advantage of AI technology by gluing different bits of tech together. There's a lot to know, but it is the future!
Guests:
Joseph Sirosh
Joseph Sirosh is a Corporate Vice President in the Artificial Intelligence and Research group at Microsoft. He currently leads Microsoft’s AI platform strategy and products such as Azure Machine Learning, Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Search and Bot Framework. Prior to this role, he was the CVP for Microsoft’s Data Platform. Joseph joined Microsoft in the fall of 2013 from Amazon.com, Inc. where he was the vice president for Global Inventory Platform, responsible for the science and software behind Amazon’s supply chain and order fulfillment systems, as well as the central Machine Learning group, which he built and led. Before joining Amazon, he worked for Fair Isaac Corp. as vice president of research and development, where he led R&D projects for DARPA, homeland security and several government organizations. He is passionate about machine learning and its applications and has been active in the field since 1990. Joseph holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and a B. Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Chennai.
Links:
- Floppotron http://silent.org.pl/home/2016/07/06/return-of-the-floppies/
- Microsoft AI https://www.microsoft.com/ai
- NVIDIA AI https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/deep-learning-ai/
- Language Understanding Intelligence Service https://azure.microsoft.com/services/cognitive-services/language-understanding-intelligent-service/
- Partnership on AI https://www.partnershiponai.org/