London,
UK -- According to The New York Times, perhaps no company
embodies the anxieties and hopes around automation from Artificial
Intelligence applications better than Amazon. Many people, including
President Donald Trump, blame the company for destroying traditional
retail jobs by enticing people to shop online. At the same time, the
company's eye-popping growth has turned it into a hiring machine,
with an unquenchable need for computer science graduates and
entry-level warehouse workers.
Amazon's
global workforce is three times larger than Microsoft's and 18 times
larger than Facebook's. Only a few weeks ago Amazon took the unusual
step of announcing it wanted a second home outside Seattle with up to
50,000 new jobs, starting what is sure to be a fierce bidding war to
lure Amazon and the thousands of high-paying jobs it will bring to
town using a combination of tax breaks and other sweeteners.
The
plan is the latest surprise from Jeff Bezos, Amazon's chief
executive, who has reshaped Seattle in the more than two decades
since he founded Amazon. Bezos overshadows even Bill Gates, the
former Microsoft chief executive who put the Seattle area on the map
as a destination for tech companies; Amazon is now the biggest
corporate employer in Seattle, and it occupies 19 percent of the
prime office space in the city, more than any other employer in a big
American city, The Seattle Times reported.
Amazon
is on the forefront of automation, finding new ways of getting robots
to do the work once handled by employees. For Edgar Perez, author of
The
AI Breakthrough, Knightmare on Wall Street and The
Speed Traders, the advancement of artificial intelligence will
increase productivity, create new demand from current and new
customers and, ultimately, create completely new categories of jobs.
"Just look at the automotive industry," says Perez; he is a
well-known international futurist, artificial intelligence and deep
learning speaker who currently offers the world's first Deep
Learning programs for Fortune 500 firms and private
equity groups.
Perez,
author of Knightmare
on Wall Street and The
Speed Traders, is a recognized futurist, keynote
speaker and director of programs targeted at board members, chief
executive officers and senior executives looking for new ways to gain
and maintain a competitive business advantage.
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ABOUT
THE AI BREAKTHROUGH
Artificial
intelligence has been referred as the general ability of a digital
computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly
associated with intelligent beings. The term has indeed been
frequently applied to the project of developing systems endowed with
the intellectual processes characteristic of humans, such as the
ability to reason, generalize, discover meaning, or learn from past
experiences. Since the development of the digital computer in the
1940s, it has been demonstrated that computers can be programmed to
carry out very complex tasks with great proficiency. Still, despite
continuing advances in computer processing speed and memory capacity,
there are as yet no programs that can match human flexibility over
wider domains or in tasks requiring much everyday knowledge.
In
1945, British logician and computer pioneer Alan Turing predicted
that computers would one day play very good chess. Just over 50 years
later, in 1997, Deep Blue, a chess computer built by IBM beat the
reigning world champion, Garry Kasparov, in a six-game match. Since
then, a number of programs have attained the performance levels of
human experts and professionals in performing certain specific tasks,
so that artificial intelligence is now found in applications as
diverse as medical diagnosis, computer search engines, and voice or
handwriting recognition.
Indeed,
deep learning has enabled many practical applications of machine
learning and by extension the overall field of artificial
intelligence. Deep learning breaks down tasks in ways that makes all
kinds of machine aids seem possible, even likely. Driverless cars,
better image recognition, even better movie recommendations, are all
here today. Artificial intelligence is the present and the future.
The
AI Breakthrough will provide a comprehensive review of the artificial
intelligence breakthroughs of today and tomorrow and how these
advancements will impact businesses and the human race in general for
years to come.
ABOUT
EDGAR PEREZ
Mr.
Edgar Perez is a published author, business consultant for
billion-dollar private equity and hedge funds and Council Member at
the Gerson Lehrman Group, Guidepoint Global Advisors and Research
International, with subject matter expertise in cyber security,
investing, trading, financial regulation (Dodd-Frank Act) and market
structure.
He
is author of The AI Breakthrough, How Artificial Intelligence is
Advancing Deep Learning and Revolutionizing Your World (2018),
Knightmare on Wall Street, The Rise and Fall of Knight Capital and
the Biggest Risk for Financial Markets (2013), and The Speed Traders,
An Insider's Look at the New High-Frequency Trading Phenomenon That
is Transforming the Investing World, published in English by
McGraw-Hill Inc. (2011), Published in Mandarin by China Financial
Publishing House (2012), and Investasi Super Kilat, published in
Bahasa Indonesia by Kompas Gramedia (2012).
Mr.
Perez is course director of 3-Day Masterclass Cybersecurity, Longest
Running Cyber Security Business Workshop and 3-Day Masterclass
Quantitative Finance, The World of Quant Finance. He has presented
his workshops in Singapore, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Kuala
Lumpur, Warsaw, Kiev, New York, Singapore, Beijing and Shanghai. He
contributes to The New York Times and China's International Finance
News and Sina Finance.
Mr.
Perez has been interviewed on CNN's Quest Means Business, CNBC's
Squawk on the Street, Worldwide Exchange, Cash Flow and Squawk Box,
FOX BUSINESS's Countdown to the Closing Bell and After the Bell,
Bloomberg TV's Market Makers, CNN en Español's Dinero, Petersburg -
Channel 5, Sina Finance, BNN's Business Day, CCTV China, Bankier.pl,
TheStreet.com, Leaderonomics, GPW Media, Channel NewsAsia's Business
Tonight and Cents & Sensibilities. In addition, Mr. Perez has
been featured on Sohu, News.Sina.com, Yicai, eastmoney, Caijing,
ETF88.com, 360doc, AH Radio, CNFOL.com, CITICS Futures, Tongxin
Securities, ZhiCheng.com, CBNweek.com, Caixin, Futures Daily, Xinhua,
CBN Newswire, Chinese Financial News, ifeng.com, International
Finance News, Finance.QQ.com, hexun.com, Finance.Sina.com, The Korea
Times, The Korea Herald, The Star, The Malaysian Insider, BMF 89.9,
iMoney Hong Kong, CNBC, Bloomberg Hedge Fund Brief, The Wall Street
Journal, The New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Valor Econômico,
FIXGlobal Trading, TODAY Online, Oriental Daily News and Business
Times.
Mr.
Perez has presented to the Council on Foreign Relations, Vadym Hetman
Kyiv National Economic University (Kiev), Quant Investment & HFT
Summit APAC (Shanghai), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
(Washington DC), CFA Singapore, Hong Kong Securities Institute,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University,
University of International Business and Economics (Beijing), Hult
International Business School (Shanghai) and Pace University (New
York), among other public and private institutions. In addition, Mr.
Perez has spoken at a number of global conferences, including Cyber
Security World Conference (New York), Inside Market Data (Chicago),
Emerging Markets Investments Summit (Warsaw), CME Group's Global
Financial Leadership Conference (Naples Beach, FL), Harvard Business
School's Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference (Boston),
High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum (New York, Chicago), MIT Sloan
Investment Management Conference (Cambridge), Institutional
Investor's Global Growth Markets Forum (London), Technical Analysis
Society (Singapore), TradeTech Asia (Singapore), FIXGlobal Face2Face
(Seoul) and Private Equity Convention Russia, CIS & Eurasia
(London).
Mr.
Perez was a vice president at Citigroup, a senior consultant at IBM,
and a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. in New York City.
Previously, he managed Operations and Technology for Peruval Finance.
Mr. Perez has an undergraduate degree in Systems Engineering from
Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima, Peru (1994), a Master of
Administration from Universidad ESAN, Lima, Peru (1997) and a Master
of Business Administration from Columbia Business School, New York,
with a dual major in Finance and Management (2002). He belongs to the
Beta Gamma Sigma honor society. Mr. Perez is an accomplished salsa
and hustle dancer and resides in the New York City area.
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