What inspired you to become a founder of Graphcore?
Back in 2012 I started to realise that AI would drive the next economic wave. Having experience in growing tech businesses, and having just sold our previous company, I wanted to build a business in AI.
What will you be speaking about at the conference, and why is it especially important right now?
AI has already been through two waves of development since 2012 and we are now entering the third an perhaps most important wave where we will build AI systems that deliver expert intelligence in key areas. AI can help us solve problems that currently lie out of reach and I will try to describe this and the huge potential that lies ahead.
AI is a very powerful tool that can help us – it doesn’t need to replace us.
What key takeaway do you hope attendees will gain from your session?
Hopefully I can provide a perspective on what might come next in AI and provide some clues on where engineers and entrepreneurs should focus so that they can really benefit in the AI driven economic wave that is coming.
What trends or developments in AI excite you and concern you the most?
You need to remember that the AI you use today is the worst AI you will ever use – it is going to get so much better. The key is that we use this amazing technology to augment our incredible human abilities. AI is a very powerful tool that can help us – it doesn’t need to replace us.
What advice would you give to someone looking to develop AI solutions?
Looking ahead – the big opportunity will be in how AI can help us solve difficult problems and create amazing new solutions. I think the term Artificial General Intelligence describes the wrong target – we should be trying to develop Artificial Expert Intelligence – systems that can really help us to make the world a better place.
