Presentation at the GlobalSouthTech event on 11 Sep 2018 in Phnom Penh. It touches on: - major tech trends and AI in particular - how AI will change industries (and regions) - how Cambodia can adopt AI solutions - what the challenges are for Cambodia to do so both from a data and a talent point of view - how we propose forward thinking companies can help address those challenges - an example of our specific open-source initiative www.cambodia.ai to help address this

1. Last updated: 11 September 2018
Is Cambodia ready for AI?
Prepared for Southeast Asia Tech event
Phnom Penh

2. Hi.
My name is
Andries De Vos
CEO of www.slash.co
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3. Product Foundry
We build
- Client products
- Our own startups
- AI & Blockchain
www.slash.co
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4. PART 1
What is AI, why it matters
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6. From Artificial Power
To
Artificial Intelligence
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7. AI
Last updated: 3 May 2017
Our talk at Startup Jungle: https://bit.ly/2k9Zn7B
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8. TRADITIONAL SOFTWARE =
EXPERT SYSTEMS
engineer tells them how to do it
by programming rules
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10. Limits of expert systems: DARPA car challenge
2004: 0 finish 2005: 5 finish
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With AI, we as humans don’t
tell the machine what to do.
Not rule-based expert,
but data-based.

12. WEAK AI
STRONG AI
2 types of AI
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13. Type 1: “Weak AI”
Specific tasks, good tool
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14. Type 2: “Strong AI”
General intelligence, super-human
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15. WEAK AI
FOCUS OF THE TALK
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16. A (Input)
Examples:
Email
Image
Audio
English
Text
B (Response)
Spam (0/1)
Object (cats, dogs etc)
Text (speech recognition)
Khmer
Audio (A, B etc)
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17. “MACHINE LEARNING”
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The majority of AI applications.

18. Example of data clustering
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19. Example of data clustering
with AI “Neural Network”
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Layer 2Layer 1 Layer 3 Layer 4

20. Each data classification
problem is different
We need a lot of AI models
or ‘algorithms’
This can get complex
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CATS & DOGS
ALGORITHM
MANGO FARM
ALGORITHM
ILLUSTRATIVE /
(over-simplification)

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Many
layers
(1-1000s)
Improve
ACCURACY
ILLUSTRATIVE /
(over-simplification)

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Some
examples

24. A FEW EXAMPLES OF AI
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25. IMAGE RECOGNITION
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29. AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS
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31. EMAIL REPLIES
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33. MESSAGING “CHATBOTS”
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36. VOICE ASSISTANT
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39. THINK YOU CAN IGNORE AI?
THINK AGAIN
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40. FROM
MOBILE FIRST
TO
AI FIRST
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42. PART 2
Developing AI engineers in
Cambodia
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43. Is Cambodia ready for AI?
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YES , CAMBODIA IS READY
Classify & Clean
Big Data
Smart
Recommendations
Chatbots for Staff,
Customers, Students
Prediction Systems
e-KYC
(Know Your Customer)
Monitoring
Fraud Detection etc
Mapping

45. 2 challenges to start with AI
Access to Data Access to Talent
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Cambodia is still a paper society

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5 DATA strategies
for Cambodia

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#1 The future is Analog Digital

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#2 Regulation to support PAPERLESS *
* For example: digital signatories, accounting, e-KYC, e-AML etc

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#3 Accuracy of Khmer language processing

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#4 Use EXISTING data and open it to the
community (e.g data.gov.kh)

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#5 Use international AI solutions, localize
for Cambodia
ស"ស#$

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Limited AI skills in Cambodia

55. Do you need a PhD
in Machine Learning?
No, not for applied AI.
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CATS & DOGS
ALGORITHM
MANGO FARM
ALGORITHM

57. Remember:
AI algorithms are optimized
for different problems
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Solves problem 1
Solves problem 2
Solves problem 3
Illustration of AI Neural Networks:

59. How do you know what AI
algorithms to use for YOUR
problem?
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by

61. AutoML
chooses the best algorithm
for you
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63. This is a BIG deal
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64. Soon, applied AI will be less
about research and PhDs
and more about Product
Engineering and Data
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3 AI TALENT strategies
for Cambodia

66. #1 Cambodia,
believe in yourself
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DON’T BE A PANGOLIN !!

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DON’T WAIT FOR A CERTIFICATE !!

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LOVE TO LEARN !!

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71. Small markets
can make progress fast
and can leapfrog solutions
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#2 Universities to innovate curriculum,
use EdTech and engage industry partners

73. AI Master course
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#3 Businesses to invest in
training and skill workshops

76. www.cambodia.ai
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Open-Source
AI Community
Phnom Penh

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AI Learning Journey: 4 stages
IMPACT
TIME TO LEARN
Understanding
AI Basics
Implement simple AI tools
Customize your own AI
solutions
Create advanced AI
solutions
Break-
through

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AI Learning Journey: 4 stages, 3 jumps
IMPACT
TIME TO LEARN
Understanding
AI Basics
Implement simple AI tools
Customize your own AI
solutions
Create advanced AI
solutions
Break-
through
Jump 1
Jump 2
Jump 3

80. Jump 1: Implement simple tools
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82. Jump 2:
Customize AI solutions
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Remember when you last
learned something difficult?

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Valley of
the death
Discovery &
First Wins
Advanced
Skills &
Success!
Rate of
learning
Effort
CAMBODIA.AI CAN HELP!!

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CAMBODIA.AI CAN HELP !!

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Some
examples

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90. CAMBODIA.AI
Let’s learn AI together
& build our AI community
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91. www.cambodia.ai > project
website
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cambodiaai.slack.com >
engage dev community
www.startupjungle.org >
events

92. We will allocate
AI engineers
for Cambodian market
Contact ai@slash.co
if you want to talk
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THANK
YOU

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CONTACT US
Andries De Vos, CEO
andries@slash.co