AI for Automotive

Dr. Bill Mark President, Information and Computing Sciences SRI International Menlo Park, CA

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AI for Financial Tech Industrial Automation Wearable Agricultural Robotics Education LiDAR Systems Active

Voice Analytics Space Services Metal “print and plate” Online Gaming Video Content Distribution manufacturing process

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Intellectual property Virtual Personal Key IP in vision, speech, information security, , Machine computational biology Learning Assistance Licenses VPA Vision Systems & Cyber DynaSpeak Robotics Center Security ATSE SenSay AnalyticsTM BotHunter Center for Vision Computer Science VisionIP Technologies Laboratory Augmented Ventures Reality Speech Technology Emotion and Research Lab Formal Detection Design

Speech Speaker Recognition Identification

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Big Data: the power of correlation

Small Data: the power of interaction

Trusting and collaborating with AI

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BILLIONS OF IMAGES AND CocaCola VIDEOS

DEEP LEARNING

Changing a tire

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© 2018 SRI International. All Rights Reserved. People GENERATE small data through INTERACTION

© 2018 SRI International. All Rights Reserved. Conversation enables personalization User style and content shapes system response

I need to go back to the Can I eke the battery to office before I go home. Can get back to the office I make it on this charge? and then home? How long are you Your average on that route is going to spend at the 54%, but you ‘ve done it with office? 44%, which would work.

Just need to pick What was traffic like on something up. the 44% day?

It would be best to Normal. Your charge for 30 minutes. acceleration was Would that work? especially gentle...

© 2018 SRI International. All Rights Reserved. Virtual Personal Assistant Architecture & Client Application Domain Specific Application Resources Acoustic & Statistical Language Language Domain Domain Model Model Web Output Specific Specific Services Templates Ontology Workflows Object and Gesture Models Backend General Virtual Personal Assistant Platform Systems Automatic Natural Speech Language Recognition Understanding Text To Interpretation Reasoning Output Speech Generation (TTS) Image Understanding

Controller

© 2018 SRI International. All Rights Reserved. Conversation is more than words Next Generation Virtual Personal Assistant Combines visual and other information Understands (and responds to) emotion

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• Improve efficiency through interactive step-by-step procedures

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© 2018 SRI International. All Rights Reserved. © 2018 SRI International. All Rights Reserved. As devices become more COMPLEX and INTELLIGENT we can/must delegate to them

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HUMANS and MACHINES AUTONOMOUS The ENVIRONMENT is have different approaches SYSTEMS are complex DYNAMIC, making to problem solving and evolve over time autonomy unpredictable

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CHARACTERIZE FILL CHARACTERIZE STATE EXPLAINABILITY UNCERTAINTY Feature aggregation GAPS Simulation Directed exploration Meaningful Stochastic differences outcomes Human-level Confidence interpretation levels

INFER CAUSAL STRUCTURE Project long-term effects Assign meaning to numeric features Coverage of agent model Provide decision Assess predictability rationale Increase confidence

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Widespread Small data Trust becomes experimentation with becomes more the gating personalization and important for condition for emotional connection differentiation collaboration

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