San Francisco, Sept. 21, 2019: Former Infosys Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Vishal Sikka demonstrated an artificial intelligence (AI) platform Vianai during his keynote address at Oracle Open World.
Vianai, Vishal explained the aim was to “enable every company, in every industry, to utilize the explorable and explainable AI techniques.”
“Companies today have been formed and reshaped by the systems of yesterday,” said Vishal in his address. “In the early days of personal computers, there were systems of record, then came systems of engagement. Today, we have the opportunity to create systems of intelligence that can bring AI techniques to transform all aspects of a business, and do so in a way that is transparent, explainable and explorable, inclusive and accessible to a massive number of developers. The Vianai platform helps us deliver on the promise of AI for every business and for all of us.”
The Vianai’s demo showcased a fully integrated and exploratory experience for building and deploying many AI projects per enterprise and many experiments per project, where each element of an experiment — data, feature, model and results — can be introspected, modified, and reused for sharing and ongoing experimentation. A key advance that the platform has “is an innovative domain specific language for data science and machine learning that allows any person who can write a standard mathematical expression to fully implement all aspects of an algorithm (models and parameters) in a highly simple, succinct and fully implemented, explorable specification”, said the startup in a press release.
“The technology we demonstrated today runs counter to the vast majority of ML platforms, which often focus on programming not experimentation. This greatly constrains enterprises’ ability to rapidly iterate and tailor solutions to their specific data and objectives. Furthermore, success often requires organizations adopt a cross-functional team approach that engages business analysts and domain experts as well as data scientists, but with today’s platforms, the discussions typically breakdown without domain expertise,” said Jake Klein, head of product at Vianai.
Vianai’s advisors include John Etchemendy (Provost Emeritus of Stanford University, Co-Director of Stanford Institute of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)), Henning Kagermann (former Chairman and CEO of SAP and Chairman of Acatech), Alan Kay (Turing Award Winner and Computer Science Pioneer), Divesh Makan (Founder of ICONIQ Capital), Indra Nooyi (Member of the Boards at Amazon and Schlumberger and Former CEO of PepsiCo), and Sebastian Thrun(CEO of the Kitty Hawk Corporation, and Co-founder and Chairman of Udacity).
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