Lina and Stephen from LoopMe, the world's largest mobile video advertising platform, invited Matthew to keynote its AI: Advertising & Beyond conference at the British Museum in London, presenting the "Future of Artificial Intelligence".
He showed how far AI had come in just four years, lifting the lid on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and so called Creative Machines that were already innovating new products, including aircraft, clothes, robots, software, shoes and even other AIs. The same technology was composing best selling pop songs and creating scarily realistic high definition fake news clips.
"There is a risk that humanity is under estimating the impact that AI will have on the world, particularly in the criminal underworld. If I could give you a single take away it would be this: AI's capabilities are evolving at a furious rate."Matthew Griffin, London, April 2018
He then looked ahead to the coming "Quantum AI" revolution and self-learning, brain-inspired neuromorphic computers that will pack the power of today's biggest supercomputers into a fingernail, and the effect both will have on the pace and direction of AI development. His central warning was that humanity risks underestimating the impact AI will have on the world, not least in the criminal underworld, because its capabilities are evolving at a furious rate.
The rest of the day was as interesting as it was diverse. Speakers included Saqib Shaikh of Microsoft, who builds AI tools that help disabled people better understand the world around them; Alan Kelly of Rothco, whose team used AI and speech synthesis to let JFK deliver, in his own voice, the speech he was due to give on the day he was shot; Roger Highfield, director of the Science Museum; and Chris Russell of the Alan Turing Institute on using AI to improve healthcare outcomes.
