Deep learning has catapulted to the front page of the New York Times, formed the core of the so-called “Google brain,” and achieved impressive results in vision, speech recognition, and elsewhere. Yet building intelligent systems requires us to go way beyond the capabilities of deep learning and today’s data-mining systems. The future of the Big Data paradigm lies in extending these powerful methods to acquire knowledge from text, databases, diagrams, images and video. We also need to reason tractably using this acquired knowledge to make sense of the world, and to draw novel conclusions.
Professor Emeritus
Dr. Oren Etzioni is the founder of TrueMedia.org, a nonprofit fighting political deepfakes. He was the Founding Chief Executive Officer at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), having served as CEO from its inception in 2013 until late 2022. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington where he helped to pioneer meta-search, online comparison shopping, machine reading, and open information extraction. He has authored several award-winning technical papers, achieving an H-index of 100 (100 technical papers each cited over 100 times). Finally, he is a technical director of the AI2 Incubator and a Venture Partner at Madrona. He has founded several companies including Farecast (acquired by Microsoft).
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KDD Keynote: The Battle for the Future of Data Mining
Deep learning has catapulted to the front page of the New York Times, formed the core of the so-called “Google brain,” and achieved impressive results in vision, speech recognition, and elsewhere. Yet building intelligent systems requires us to go way beyond the capabilities of deep learning and today’s data-mining systems. The future of the Big Data paradigm lies in extending these powerful methods to acquire knowledge from text, databases, diagrams, images and video. We also need to reason tractably using this acquired knowledge to make sense of the world, and to draw novel conclusions.
Open Information Extraction at the University of Washington
Oren Etzioni discusses Open Information Extraction research at the University of Washington.
All I Really Need to Know I Learned From Google
Oren Etzioni discusses the KnowItAll Project at the University of Washington.
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