Join the 果冻影院 Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose in discussion with our very own Visiting Professor of Practice, Ian Hogarth, and Nathan Benaich from Air Street Capital, as they present the landmark report, State of AI 2020, talking about the realities of AI investment and development and providing an understanding into AI鈥檚 future trajectories
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AI is quickly becoming the defining general-purpose technology of the early 21st century. As interest and investment grow, countries and companies need to ground AI鈥檚 promise in the reality of trends in its development, deployment, and diffusion. Where are technical developments coming from? What is the role of the military? Is AI really as 鈥渙pen source鈥� as the field claims? Who is set to gain the most and how are nations thinking about the risks of falling behind?
果冻影院 Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose presents Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth on the third edition of their landmark report, the . Showing the realities of AI investment and development, from its technical revolutions to the politicization of AI innovation, the report provides a broad survey to help understand AI鈥檚 future trajectories.听
This talk will be chaired by IIPP Director Mariana Mazzucato in conversation with the report authors, Ian Hogarth听(IIPP) and (Air Street Capital), alongside Tim O鈥橰eilly听(滨滨笔笔)听补苍诲 (Exponential View).
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About the Speakers
Ian Hogarth
Visiting Professor of Practice at
果冻影院 Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
Ian Hogarth is a Visiting Professor of Practice at IIPP, and an entrepreneur and angel investor with a background in machine learning. He co-founded and ran Songkick, the concert service used by 17m people each month. He is the co-author of the , and in 2018 he wrote a widely cited essay, , on the geopolitical implications of continued rapid progress in machine learning. Twitter: @soundboy More about Ian Hogarth
Nathan Benaich
Founder and General Partner at
Air Street Capital
Nathan Benaich is the Founder and General Partner of , a venture capital firm investing in early-stage AI-first technology and life science companies. The team鈥檚 investments include Mapillary (acq. Facebook), Graphcore, Thought Machine, Tractable, and LabGenius. Nathan is Managing Trustee of The RAAIS Foundation, a non-profit with a mission to advance education and open-source research in common good AI. Nathan is also co-author of the annual State of AI Report. He holds a Ph.D. in cancer biology from the University of Cambridge and a BA from Williams College. Twitter: @NathanBenaich
Tim O鈥橰eilly
Visiting Professor of Practice at
Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
Tim O'Reilly is a Visiting Professor of Practice at IIPP. He is also the founder, CEO, and Chairman of , the company that has been providing the picks and shovels of learning to the Silicon Valley gold rush for the past thirty-five years. The company delivers online learning, publishes books, and runs online events about cutting-edge technology, and has a history of convening conversations that reshape the computer industry. If you鈥檝e heard the term 鈥渙pen source software鈥�, 鈥渨eb 2.0鈥�, 鈥渢he Maker movement鈥�, 鈥済overnment as a platform鈥�, or 鈥渢he WTF economy鈥�, he鈥檚 had a hand in framing each of those big ideas. He is a partner at early-stage venture firm O鈥橰eilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), and on the boards of Code for America, PeerJ, Civis Analytics, and PopVox. He is the author of many technical books published by O鈥橰eilly Media, and most recently WTF? What鈥檚 the Future and Why It鈥檚 Up to Us (Harper Business, 2017). He is working on a new book about why we need to rethink antitrust in the era of internet-scale platforms. Twitter: @timoreilly
Azeem Azhar
Investor and Author at
Exponential View
is an award-winning entrepreneur, analyst, strategist, investor. He produces the leading newsletter, and podcast on the impact of technology on our future economy and society. He is also an influencer and writer with a passion for all things technological. Currently, he is also Senior Advisor in Artificial Intelligence to the CTO of Accenture, a member of the World Economic Forum鈥檚 Global Futures Council on Digital Economy & Society, Advisory Member of HFS Research & Advisor at CognitionX. Azeem Azhar is on a mission to explain how our societies and ways of life will change under the force of exponential technologies. He is determined to bring together the two cultures of innovation and tech and of business, society and policy and help us understand the real implications of the changes we are witnessing. Twitter:听@azeem More about Azeem Azhar
Mariana Mazzucato (chair)
Director at
Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
Mariana Mazzucato is a Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value and Director of the 果冻影院 Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose. She won the ,, and 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought and was named as one of the '' by the New Republic, by Fast Company, and one of the 25 leaders shaping the future of capitalism by Wired. She authored the highly-acclaimed book (2013) and (2018). She advises policy makers globally on innovation-led inclusive and sustainable growth including the Scottish Government; South African President鈥檚 Economic Advisory Council; OECD Secretary-General, UN鈥檚 Committee for Development Policy. Twitter: @MazzucatoM More about Mariana Mazzucato (chair)
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