Host: Paul Feldman, chief executive, Jisc.
Keynote speaker: Geoff Mulgan, chief executive and CEO, Nesta.
Nesta is the UK's innovation foundation and runs a wide range of activities in investment, practical innovation programmes and research.
27. What works centres
1. NICE (health and care)
2. Education Endowment Fund
3. Early Intervention Foundation
4. Centre for Ageing Better
5. College of Policing (crime
reduction)
6. Centre for Local Economic
Growth
7. What Works Well-being
8. Universities …?T h e n e w g l o b a l
l a b o r a t o r y f o r
i n n o v a t i o n a n d g r o w t h
p o l i c y
Deepmind Alphago – Mustafa Suleyman at FutureFest 2016 explaining the branching thinking needed to create the algorithm to play Go (with sound)
Credits:
Courtesy of Nesta
http://www.nesta.org.uk/mustafa-suleyman-futurefest-2016
google translate: 200 billion words from UN, In November 2016, Google announced that Google Translate would switch to a neural machine translation engine, which translates "whole sentences at a time, rather than just piece by piece. It uses this broader context to help it figure out the most relevant translation, which it then rearranges and adjusts to be more like a human speaking with proper grammar"
What does machine learning mean in this context: learning relative to look-up: where is the smart
The richness comes from the richness of the dataset and *uncertainty*
Not a static set of rules
Dealing with uncertainty
Sightcorp – scanning a crowd (no sound)
Credits:
Courtesy of Sightcorp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V8jrdH5tAQ
In the last 15 years, occupations classified by Osborne and Frey in 2014 as having the lowest probability of computerisation have created approximately 3.5m jobs while higher probability occupations have lost over 800k jobs