Saturday, November 14, 2020

Darik Elwan

Darik Elwan 

darik elwan

Managing Director

Darik Elwan is the Managing Director of Elwan Group Limited, based in Dubai since 2006. He is the co-founder and former Managing Principal of Elwan Group’s subsidiary, ICG Properties, and has been instrumental in directing the firm’s broad-ranging development activities in the United States and other key markets abroad. 

 
Darik Elwan has more than 23 years of experience in develop111ing, financing and managing large-scale infrastructure projects in the US and emerging markets, including project financing, joint ventures, and private equity arrangements, as well as complex lease and general contract negotiations, with an emphasis on capital structuring and the development of successful equity partnerships. 

 

Darik Elwan holds a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University; an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University; and an Executive MBA from the London Business School. 

 

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Monday, November 9, 2020

Ali Sami Farooq - What is Artificial Intelligence !!!

Artificial Intelligence is one of the emerging technologies that try to simulate human reasoning in AI systems. Researchers have made significant strides in weak AI systems, while they have only made a marginal mark in strong AI systems.

Most of us have used Siri, Google Assistant, Cortana, or even Bixby at some point in our lives. What are they? They are our digital personal assistants. They help us find useful information when we ask for it using our voice; we can say ‘Hey Siri, show me the closest fast-food restaurant’ or ‘Who is the 21st President of the United States?’, and the assistant will respond with the relevant information by either going through your phone or searching on the web. This is a simple example of Artificial Intelligence!

How does Artificial Intelligence work?

Computers are good at following processes, i.e., sequences of steps to execute a task. If we give a computer steps to execute a task, it should easily be able to complete it. The steps are nothing but algorithms. An algorithm can be as simple as printing two numbers or as difficult as predicting who will win elections in the coming year!

So, how can we accomplish this?

Let’s take an example of predicting the weather forecast for 2020.

First of all, what we need is a lot of data! Let’s take the data from 2006 to 2019.

Now, we will divide this data in an 80:20 ratio. 80 percent of the data is going to be our labeled data, and the rest 20 percent will be our test data. Thus, we have the output for the entire 100 percent of the data that has been acquired from 2006 to 2019.

What happens once we collect the data? We will feed the labeled data, i.e., 80 percent of train data, into the machine. Here, the algorithm is learning from the data which has been fed into it.

Next, we need to test the algorithm. Here, we feed the test data, i.e., the remaining 20 percent of the data, to the machine. The machine gives us the output. Now, we cross verify the output given by the machine with the actual output of the data and check for its accuracy. While checking for accuracy if we are not satisfied with the model, we tweak the algorithm to give us the precise output or at least somewhere close to the actual output. Once we are satisfied with the model, we then feed the data to the model so that it can predict the weather forecast for the year 2020.

With more and more sets of data being fed into the system, the output becomes more and more precise.

Well, none of the algorithms can be 100 percent correct. None of the machines have been able to attain 100 percent efficiency as well. Hence, the output we receive from the machine is never 100 percent correct.
 
~Ali Sami Farooq

Friday, May 15, 2020

News Monitor: Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer.AI

News Monitor: Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer.AI Assembly Line Vision...: Engineer.ai is co-founded by Sachin Dev Duggal in 2012 and the founder has brought an “assembly line vision to software development so that the 140 million new small businesses formed globally every year can build out their ideas into tangible products”.


How getting burned by a developer inspired SD Squared Labs - Mixergy

Joining me today is Sachin Dev Duggal. I know him as the guy who created Nivio, a company that actually let you get Windows apps on your freaking iPad, and it was all legal. It was this beautiful thing. People loved it. And he sold it.

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Sachin Dev Duggal

Sachin Dev Duggal, Founder and CEO, Engineerai, a tech icon globally, Sachin Dev Duggal, the Chief Wizard of Engineerai, was recognized with the Serial Entrepreneur of the Year Award at a gala event hosted by Entrepreneur India to recognize the best of Entrepreneurial ecosystem for 2019.

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer AI



At 33, Sachin Dev Duggal is an innovator exemplar, a multi venture maverick, and a strong advocate of enterprises that create social impact, benefiting the world at large.

With SD Squared, Sachin Duggal leads Product Innovation, Design & Strategy, while overseeing core executive functions & investments. A team of over 150 come around “Sach” with engineers from tier I engineering institutions and fortune 100 companies, over the last 3 years Sachin Dev Duggal has steered a very successful venture in SD Squared with over 300 percent year on year growth. In the last few months, his sharp focus has been in next generation path breaking technologies working on Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Advanced Virtual/Mixed Reality Technologies and can often been seen working with the SD Squared Research & Experience center on the Microsoft HoloLens or HTC Vive. His long term future thinking helps in the company’s innovation to stay ahead of the race and take both short term bets as well as moonshots.

Among Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer AI achievements include being awarded the Youth Leader – NCEC of ASSOCHAM, The MIT TR35 Indian Innovator of the Year, The Price Waterhouse Coopers Leader of Tomorrow, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, The BBC Young Asian achiever of the Year, UNEP Global 500 Youth Award among others.

Tell us about SD Squared professional services, solutions and expertise areas?

SD Squared provides “peace-of-mind-outsourcing, using A.I. , ridiculous brain power & mad love to bring ideas to life; always, timely and beyond expectation”. The entire business model is disrupt on behalf of the consumer the entire outsourcing model from over-pricing, under-delivery and inconceivable opaqueness in how competitive firms deliver.

SD Squared is the trusted partner to several start-ups and enterprise companies providing them mission critical solutions for their customers to ensure that their business is always on and accessible. Be it the start-up ecosystem or enterprise businesses, SD Squared brings customer value through its brands; Engineer.ai for application development, and CloudOps.ai for cloud infrastructure services, billing and managed services. The centerfold strategy of using artificial intelligence, automation, ridiculous brainpower & deeply vested partnership help bringing customer ideas to life.


Read full article @ https://www.insightssuccess.in/sd-squared-and-shoto-bring-your-idea-to-life/

Thursday, November 14, 2019

Udacity, Intel welcome applications from students for AI scholarship program

Udacity, the Silicon Valley based deep rooted learning stage, declared its newest initiative to extend students’ artificial intelligence aptitudes: the Intel Edge AI Scholarship Program.

This new grant program, declared at the Intel AI Summit and the Future of Education and Workforce Summit in San Francisco, will engage proficient engineers keen on cutting edge adapting, explicitly profound learning and PC vision, to quicken the advancement and arrangement of superior PC vision and profound learning arrangements.

PC vision and AI at the edge are getting instrumental in fueling everything from industrial facility mechanical production systems and retail stock administration to emergency clinic dire consideration medicinal imaging hardware like X-beam and CAT examines. This program will show familiarity with the absolute most bleeding edge advancements.


Upon effective consummation of the primary period of the program, understudies will likewise have the chance to acquire their way to a full grant to the Intel Edge AI for IoT Developers Nanodegree program, a fresh out of the plastic new Udacity Nanodegree program worked in organization with Intel.

The grant program is separated into two stages. In the primary stage, understudies will get select access to the main course of the spic and span Intel Edge AI for IoT Developers Nanodegree program, the Intel Edge AI Fundamentals Course. As a component of the program, researchers will figure out how to quicken the improvement and organization of superior PC vision and profound learning arrangements, utilizing its wide scope of silicon and the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolbox. As researchers work through the primary course, they'll profit by a Udacity-upheld understudy network where they can team up and bolster their companions, get input on their work, take an interest in restrictive online courses and the sky is the limit from there.

Intel's help and venture will make a predetermined number of seats accessible for the principal period of the grant. Upon effectively finishing stage one, 750 understudies will at that point proceed to meet all requirements for the full Intel Edge AI for IoT Developers Nanodegree program.

"At Udacity, we endeavor to enable experts with the most bleeding edge and sought after abilities in the field," said Udacity CEO, Gabriel Dalporto. "That is the reason we collaborated with Intel to fabricate the Intel® Edge AI for IoT Developers Nanodegree program — the main program of its sort."

"Truly, understudies have figured out how to fabricate and send profound learning models for the cloud," said Jonathan Ballon Intel VP and senior supervisor, Internet of Things Group. "With Udacity, we are preparing the up and coming age of AI designers to go where the information is produced in the physical world: at the Edge. Enhancing direct organization of models anxious gadgets requires information on one of a kind limitations like power, arrange transfer speed and idleness, differing PC designs and that's just the beginning. The aptitudes this class conveys will enable understudies to execute learnings on genuine applications over an assortment of fields."

Given the toolbox requirements, to apply for Intel Edge AI Scholarship program, understudies must have a fundamental information on PC vision and AI model creation, alongside essential Python or C++ experience. To find out more and apply to this grant program, visit the official Scholarship Page.
This Scholarship program joins a fresh out of the box new Nanodegree program, the Intel Edge AI for IoT Developers Nanodegree program. The Nanodegree program will acquaint understudies with the OpenVINO toolbox, which enables designers to convey pre-prepared profound learning models through a significant level C++ or Python deduction motor API incorporated with application rationale. In light of convolutional neural systems (CNN), the toolbox expands outstanding burdens crosswise over Intel equipment (counting quickening agents) and amplifies execution.

Thusly, the alumni of the Intel Edge AI for IoT Developers Nanodegree program will see how to quicken the advancement and organization of elite PC vision and profound learning arrangements utilizing its wide scope of silicon and the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolbox.

The USPTO needs to know whether AI can possess the content it creates

The US office liable for patents and trademarks is attempting to make sense of how AI may call for changes to copyright law, and it's approaching people in general for suppositions on the point. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) distributed a notice in the Federal Register a month ago saying it's looking for remarks, as spotted by TorrentFreak.

The workplace is gathering data about the effect of computerized reasoning on copyright, trademark, and other licensed innovation rights. It traces thirteen explicit inquiries, going from what occurs if an AI makes a copyright-encroaching work to if it's legitimate to sustain an AI copyrighted material.


It begins by inquiring as to whether yield made by AI with no inventive contribution from a human ought to qualify as a work of creation that is protectable by US copyright law. In the event that not, at that point what level of human inclusion "would or ought to be adequate so the work fits the bill for copyright insurance?"


Different questions inquire as to whether the organization that prepares an AI should possess the subsequent work, and if it's alright to utilize copyrighted material to prepare an AI in any case. "Should creators be perceived for this kind of utilization of their works?" asks the workplace. "Assuming this is the case, how?"

The workplace, which, in addition to other things, prompts the legislature on copyright, frequently looks for general supposition to see new improvements and get notification from individuals who really manage them. Prior this year, the workplace comparably requested general conclusion on AI and licenses.

None of these inquiries have solid answers in US law, however individuals have been discussing the potential results for a considerable length of time. The circumstance may be a little more clear when you're seeing something like an AI-based application where a client needs to settle on a great deal of choices to shape the final product. "I believe what's protectable is cognizant advances made by an individual to be engaged with initiation," Zvi S. Rosen, teacher at the George Washington University School of Law, discloses to The Verge. In any case, in the event that somebody utilizes an AI that lets out an outcome with a solitary snap, that could be an alternate issue. "My supposition is if it's extremely a push button thing, and you get an outcome, I don't believe there's any copyright in that."

However, it's not constantly straightforward. As of now, coders have asserted origin over the "push button" works their AI programming makes, which happened not long ago in a conveyance bargain Warner Music handled with the startup Endel. "That is the place it gets increasingly confused," Rosen says. "I don't have an unmistakable answer on that."

As The Verge recently analyzed, questions like these are at the core of progressing exchanges around AI and copyright law. It's an out and out muddled subject with no reasonable answers. There is some essential direction in the Compendium of US Copyright Office Practices, which says that works delivered by a machine with no imaginative info or mediation from a human can't be given initiation. Be that as it may, it would seem that the Patent and Trademark Office feels this definition won't hold up as AI's turn in innovative works keeps on getting increasingly convoluted and nuanced.
For the most part, the USPTO possibly gets a couple of reactions from the open when it makes these kinds of request, with the mass originating from law offices, organizations, and different intrigue gatherings. Yet, anybody can send in a remark, and Rosen says it would be gainful for singular makers to contribute. "[The office] is searching for explicit concerns and connections," he says, "so if, for instance, a performer has worked with AI and can validate a specific encounter or complaint, that is useful."
As AI turns out to be progressively best in class, typical in the innovative work process, and equipped for making its own material, the inquiries the workplace is presenting have stopped being hypothetical and should be replied. "It's not astonishing [the office] is doing this," says Rosen. "I think everybody sees it coming. Given to what extent these things take, any administrative reaction will be late, however by attempting to get out before it on the examination end, it won't be as late. That is exactly how things work."

Slickspaces named Hot Startup for 2019

The Slickspaces group is pleased to report that we've been named as a component of PhocusWire's "Hot 25 Startups for 2019".

In collecting their rundown, Phocuswire tried to perceive organizations with "the best potential to have any kind of effect to their division or market in the following a year - in view of their capacity to develop, develop clients and grow geologically, just as the nature of their initiative group."

Darren Huston, was excited with the news, saying: "The input from our customers has been exceptional and it's energizing to see a similar acknowledgment originating from industry. 

PhocusWire is significant name in travel. We're all anticipating that 2019 should be an astonishing and extremely bustling year."

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