Democratizing AI: Max Pechyonkin · TechNode

If you can't see the YouTube player above, try watching here instead. Artificial intelligence (AI) is now an inescapable and often unnoticed part of daily life, and everyone can and should take part in developing its applications. Max Pechyonkin, a deep learning engineer and dean of the China School of AI, an AI-focused education program, spoke at the Emerge by TechNode conference in Shanghai in May about his work in teaching people the fundamentals of an omnipresent technology that is vastly misunderstood. "If you use a smartphone, you are using AI everyday," he said, including any app with a content recommendation feature. The technology has become so ubiquitous that its very definition has changed, he said.