Pardon The Disruption

A few members of the Rumjog team had recently purchased an HTC Vive and an Oculus Quest VR headset, which allowed them to get a sense of where the market currently is with regards to consumer VR.

In this episode, the team provides their insights into both headsets, and discuss some implications of VR technology as it becomes more advanced and mainstream.

- Oculus Quest Intro (1:25)

- Oculus Quest vs HTC Vive (2:32)

- Netflix & Chill in VR (4:55) (22:04)

- Live Events in VR (7:15)

- NFL in VR (8:32)

- VR for the elderly (12:49)

- VR to train employees (14:38)

- VR & Privacy in your home (18:28)

- The Real-world meets VR (21:19)

- Capturing Data (23:23)

Links used in this episode:

skarredghost.com/2019/05/27/oculu…vive-focus-plus/

uploadvr.com/oculus-insight-details-quest/

www.viar360.com/virtual-reality-market-size-2018/

shop.magicleap.com/#/

www.vive.com/us/cosmos/

www.talespin.company/

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The world of education, like so many sectors in our society, is changing. Specifically, technology is starting to play a more important role in what we learn, and how we learn it. As distribution and platforms scale internationally, the technology-driven education market (or 'EdTech') is projected to grow at 17.0% per annum, to $252bn by 2020, led by companies such as Coursera, Udacity, and Udemy.

Despite this large growth and a rapidly changing labor market, education is still starved of capital compared with other sectors and is still largely under-digitized. Added to that, today in the U.S. there are 44.7 million Americans with a total of $1.56 trillion in student loan debt.

All of this begs the question, is a degree today a valid return on investment and what role can technology play to better equip graduates for the existing roles in the market place?

Links used in this episode:

10 charts that explain the Global Education Technology Market: www.holoniq.com/edtech/10-charts-…echnology-market/

A Look at the Shocking Student Loan Debt Statistics for 2019: studentloanhero.com/student-loan-debt-statistics/

EdTech Spend To Reach $252bn By 2020:

www.financedigest.com/global-report-…n-by-2020.html

China has started a grand experiment in AI education. It could reshape how the world learns: www.technologyreview.com/s/614057/chi…ape-how-the/

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At its peak, investors pumped $253 million into two dozen deals involving virtual and augmented reality start-ups in L.A. and Orange counties in 2016, hoping that pricey headsets projecting virtual worlds would become as popular as smartphones.

Despite a recent dip in investment, some exciting applications of these new technologies have surfaced, including training staff on soft skills like how to practice firing somebody (www.technologyreview.com/f/614102/you…ual-reality/). British Airways is also testing VR as a perk for first-class passengers as a new form of in-flight entertainment (www.cnet.com/news/british-airwa…s-virtual-reality/).

But what is the current state of the VR / AR market, which devices and applications are leading the market, and what are some strong use cases pushing commercial adoption?

Links used in podcast:

www.bhaptics.com

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The past 15-20 years have generated a massive shift from on-premise software to cloud computing, but the AI revolution has created a movement to perform AI computing differently.

Instead of a link to the cloud, data generated by innovative devices is increasingly being processed locally on the devices themselves. Not only does this “AI at the edge” system process data faster and more cost-efficiently, it never leaves the confines of the area in which the device is situated.

Ok, but buzz words aside...what does this all actually mean and why should you care?

What is Edge Computing? What are the benefits, and more importantly what are some potential real-life applications of this new type of computing? In this episode of Pardon The Disruption, Tom speaks with Rob High (CTO IBM Edge Computing & IBM Fellow) to answer these questions and many more.

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The May IPO and the subsequent surge in the price of Beyond Meat stock, increasing 550% since the initial offering, caused some surprise amongst skeptics of artificial meat products. But should it have?

The company sells plant-based burgers and sausages, and their likeness to animal meats has meant that the company along with others like Impossible Foods are rapidly taking large chunks out of the meat market. In fact, AT Kearny (global management consulting firm) released a report recently claiming that by 2040, 60% of all meat produced and/or consumed globally will be cultured or plant-based.

https://www.atkearney.com/retail/article/?/a/how-will-cultured-meat-and-meat-alternatives-disrupt-the-agricultural-and-food-industry

In this episode, the team takes a look at the meat substitute market, the disruption companies like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are creating to the agriculture business, and highlight some of the benefits of plant-based meats.

- Introduction (2:04)

- Highlighting the disruption of plant-based meats (4:13)

- The inefficiency of meat production (5:24)

- The cost of Beyond Meat (8:53)

- The supply-chain disruption (10:17)

- What will it take for widespread adoption of meat alternatives? (33:33)

https://www.beyondmeat.com

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In Episode 29 of Pardon The Disruption, the team discussed the world of Deepfakes. But what is the underlying technology behind Deepfakes? Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), is extremely interesting and could have profound implications for distorting reality when it comes to generating fake videos or images.

Created by the researcher Ian Goodfellow at the age of 28, Generative Adversarial Networks are two artificial neural networks which compete against each other. In the case of deep fake images, one network (the generator) tries to generate an image which the other network discriminates (the discriminator). In essence, the generator is trying to fool the discriminator into believing the data, or image, is fake - and it continues to generate images until this objective is met.

- What are Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)? (2:14)

- The role of the Generator and Discriminator in GANs (5:00)

- Why Is This Important? (8:50)

- Where will GANs be used in the future? (9:25)

- Deep fake images are just the start (10:20)

- Generating Complete Data (14:00)

- Variational Auto-Encoders (What JPG did for image compression) (14:44)

- Faking Social Media profiles (20:10)

- Machine-Brain Interfaces (21:41)

Links used in the show:

A Beginner's Guide to GANs: https://skymind.ai/wiki/generative-adversarial-network-gan

Play with GANs (The GAN Lab): https://poloclub.github.io/ganlab/

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Episode 30: Crypto Catchup: Bitcoin & Facebook Libra

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The price of Bitcoin has been volatile, to say the least, up almost 250% in 2019 alone. This rapid rise in addition to a number of institutions developing their own digital currencies has reignited the interest in Cryptocurrencies and the wider application of the underlying Blockchain technology behind them.

Facebook becomes the latest institution to enter the Crypto world with the launch of its ambitious digital currency project Facebook Libra (https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/18/facebook-libra/).

In this weeks episode the team revisits the price of Bitcoin, what's driving it, and they review the latest announcement from Facebook on their new digitial currency. What does this mean for the wider crypto market?

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Episode 29: Deep Fakes

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Faking an image or video has long been seen in Hollywood through Computer Generated Images (CGI).

In today's world, however, deepfakes are moving into the consumer world in real-time through apps like Snapchat, and most recently surfaced when researchers from AI startup Dessa perfectly mimicked the sound of MMA-commentator-turned-podcaster Joe Rogan (https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/17/18629024/joe-rogan-ai-fake-voice-clone-deepfake-dessa).

It's all fun and games, up to the point where you can't tell what's real and what's fake.

- Snapchat filters (1:25)

- Joe Rogan deepfake using Dessa's AI (4:22)

- How to fake Rembrandt's art (6:31)

- Will deepfakes increase paranoia? (9:07)

- Implications of deepfakes on society (13:36)

- The technology behind deepfakes: GAN (15:29)

- thispersondoesnotexist.com (16:55)

- Recreating memories using deepfakes (20:59)

- The future of deepfakes (26:46)

- Deep existence vs deepfakes (27:59)

- Dinner in Paris whilst being in New Jersey (33:16)

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By now you will have heard everyone saying the same thing; technology is moving at an unprecedented pace. But every now and again, something jumps up that shocks even the most hardened technology enthusiasts.

In this episode, the team discusses two such revelations.

1. Speech to Face - In a paper published recently, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have proposed a method for learning a face from audio recordings of that person speaking.

2. DNA to Face - An artist was recently able to recreate faces from DNA on forgotten gum and cigarette butts.

Both of these breakthroughs, although very early, will have a profound impact on the field of Forensic Science, as the team delves into the fact we as a society will soon have nowhere left to hide.

Speech to Face:

The goal of the project was to investigate how much information about a person’s looks can be inferred from the way they speak. Researchers proposed a neural network architecture designed specifically to perform the task of facial reconstruction from audio.

They used natural videos of people speaking collected from Youtube and other internet sources. The proposed approach is self-supervised and researchers exploit the natural synchronization of faces and speech in videos to learn the reconstruction of a person’s face from speech segments.

See the full article & results here: https://neurohive.io/en/news/speech2f...

DNA to Face:

Dewey-Hagborg, who describes herself as an “amateur biohacker,” extracted DNA from the butt in a lab and analyzed it. The resulting strings of text gave a series of clues about its owner: sex, ancestry, eye color, physical features. She used the information to create a 3D image and finally ran it off on a 3D printer.

See the full article & results here: https://globalnews.ca/news/2930279/ho...

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The deployment of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has long been seen as a silver bullet for automating manual, repetitive tasks, enabling firms to replace human labor and run business processes at machine speed.

However, according to E&Y, 30-50% of RPA projects fail (https://www.cmswire.com/information-management/why-rpa-implementation-projects-fail/)

In this episode of Pardon The Disruption, Tom Young is joined by Raman Makkar (Chief Of Technology & Innovation @ IRPA AI) to discuss RPA and why so many RPA deployments fail.

- Ramen Mukhar Intro? (0:11)

- Successful RPA deployment is a journey (1:08)

- Previous obstacles to Process Re-engineering (1:38)

- Learn to walk before you run (3:30)

- What excites Ramen the most about the future? (5:32)

- Tech has the spotlight, but people matter (7:19)

- Fortune 50 company case study (8:03)

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