James Cham: Near-term AI will consist of many small specialized systems
James Cham · 20VC: Greenfield Opportunities For Machine Learning, Why Massive Corporates Finally See It's Potential & Why VC's Investment Decision Making Process Needs To Change with James Cham, Partner @ Bloomberg Beta · Oct 19, 2016 · at 9:10
James Cham, Partner at Bloomberg Beta, discusses the practical architecture of machine learning deployment with 20VC host Harry Stebbings.
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“I think machine intelligence is not going to be, at least in the near term, you know, one big intelligence, but as it is for our own brains, many small intelligences and many, many small systems that help us make Good decisions or make decisions for us and do things on our behalf.”
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