09 Is Artificial Intelligence dead again? (aka "just buy a license")

The Innovation Engineer Podcast

I have a claim: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are already dead again, the hype is gone and nobody is talking about it anymore. The hype train moved on to the next topic. Nobody cares if your startup does anything with ML anymore. Or am I wrong? I guess Tarek totally disagrees with me. OK, what is actually the state of AI and ML? Where is it really used right now? And what happened to all those promising startups, which were faking voices, people or creating awesome things with the power of neural networks?! Is the only thing staying from the last hype that every company needs a team of Data Scientists? We have a word or two to say about this topic!

Welcome to The Innovation Engineer Podcast, your favorite place for picking brains of your favorite engineers. This time we ask ourselves what happened with the hype around Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and what’s currently state of the art. I will live on forever, as a dead bot!

Show Notes

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:40 AI is from the sixties, it’s old
• 6:39 A problem of over promising and then under delivering
• 7:50 The Age of Prediction Machines
• 8:45 We were promised deep fake videos and voices
• 9:50 We as human being are just to impatient
• 11:42 Snapchat filters are amazing AI toys
• 12:19 Data Science is staying, ML and AI are dead
• 13:55 Prediction models are commodity, don’t build it yourself
• 15:14 What Netflix did and what Waschi did at Bertelsmann
• 18:49 The value is not in the ML model, but in running it in production
• 20:40 The new hype - MLOps
• 22:34 The rise of the plumber
• 23:25 Not really a new topic (it’s only new for Data Scientists)
• 24:55 What are all these people next to the developers doing?!
• 26:40 Our favorite ML project - the Coffee Maker Mood Bot
• 28:00 OpenCV combined with a RaspberryPI
• 30:31 Easy to use open source components for your ML project
• 33:49 Big Language Models to the rescue
• 35:19 Tarek does home automation in 2003
• 36:31 The next big thing in ML - Dead Bots
• 40:51 Ghost in the Shell and the answer if real AI can exist
• 44:33 It will take another like three years until my niece even know the word metaverse
• 45:56 Outro

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Stuff we mentioned

• The Matrix
  • Amazon.de:
    • https://amzn.to/3dIhyAp
  • Amazon.co.uk:
    • https://amzn.to/3CgIG3M
• Ghost in the Shell
  • Amazon.de:
    • https://amzn.to/3dJiuVf
  • Amazon.co.uk:
    • https://amzn.to/3c0jV0Z
• RaspberryPI
  • Amazon.de:
    • https://amzn.to/3A33Bo9
  • Amazon.co.uk:
    • https://amzn.to/3QW83vs
• Coffee maker mood bot(27:00) 📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1JFXmdE-CY
• Gartner Hype Cycle → https://www.gartner.de/de/methoden/hype-cycle
• OpenCV → https://opencv.org/
• Dead Bots → https://nftnewstoday.com/2022/05/31/live-forever-in-metaverse-with-somnium-spaces-new-tech/
  
  

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