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On 10 October 2017, Yandex (the Russian equivalent of Google)  launched Alice, a “conversational intelligent assistant” using notably Deep Learning, as well as “SpeechKit, Yandex\u2019s proprietary speech recognition toolkit”, to help Russian internet users accomplish many tasks not only over the internet but also regarding the management of their own computers (see Alice website<\/a>; Yandex Press release “Yandex Launches Alice – The First AI Assistant Designed For The Russian Market<\/a>“; George Anadiotis, “Alice, the making of: Behind the scenes with the new AI assistant from Yandex<\/a>“, 10 Oct 2017, ZDNet<\/em>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The capability to use Alice in English could be developed in the (near-)future (Anadiotis, Ibid.). This would open the whole Yandex world to English speakers. Meanwhile this would also allow Yandex to get access to all the data of these very English speakers, so far the preserve mainly of Google, Apple and Amazon. Considering the current tensions between the U.S. and, with variations, NATO members, on the one hand, Russia on the other, one may only too well imagine the political paranoia that might then develop. Meanwhile, international competition among internet giants for users’ data, crucial to part of Deep Learning, as we shall see when explaining what is Deep Learning below, will very likely be intensified. On a more positive side, better understanding may also emerge as a result of non-Russian people discovering the Russian world. Nonetheless, this would also impact perceptions and thus international relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The AI world, notably in its Deep Learning component, is already here. It impacts everything, even though the extent and depth of its impacts are still hardly perceptible. We must understand Deep Learning to be able to live within this new world in the making, rather than only reacting to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article thus focuses on Deep Learning (DL), the sub-field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that leads the current exponential development of the sector. As we seek to envision how a future AI-powered world will look and what it will mean to its actors, notably in terms of politics and geopolitics, it is indeed fundamental to first understand what is AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously<\/a>, we presented AI, looking first at<\/span> AI as a capability, then as a scientific field. Finally, we introduced the various types of AI capabilities that scientists seek to achieve and the ways in which they approach their research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this article, we shall first give examples of how Deep Learning is used in the real world. We distinguish two types of activities: classical AI-powered activities and totally new AI-activities, related to the very emergence of DL. In both cases we shall point out their revolutionary potential, impacting three major emerging functions within polities we had previously started identifying: AI management, AI governance  and AI-power status, when AI is most likely to be, to the least, part of the relative power ranking for world actors (Helene Lavoix, “When Artificial Intelligence will Power Geopolitics – Presenting AI<\/a>“, 29 November 2017, and Jean-Michel Valantin, “The Chinese Artificial Intelligence Revolution<\/a>“, 13 November 2017, The Red (Team) Analysis Society<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, we shall take a deeper dive in the world of Deep Learning, taking as practical example the evolution of Google’s DeepMind AI-DL program initially developed to win against human Go masters: AlphaGo, then AlphaGo Zero and finally AlphaZero. After briefly presenting where DL is located within AI, we shall focus first on Deep Neural Networks and Supervised Learning. Second we shall look at the latest evolution with Deep Reinforcement Learning and start wondering if a new AI-DL paradigm, which could revolutionise the current dogma regarding the importance of Big Data, is not emerging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deep Learning in the real world, AI-governance and AI-power status<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In a nutshell, Deep Learning (DL) is used to solve at best complex problems and functions and to take the best possible decisions <\/span>regarding whatever question <\/span>it is applied or <\/span>to succeed in whatever field it is used.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, DL is increasingly used in the oil and gas industry. Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) developed the Smart LEak Detection (SLED) system, which “uses algorithms to process images from sensors scanning infrastructure” to “autonomously and accurately detect liquid hydrocarbon leaks and spills” (Maria S. Araujo and Daniel S. Davila, “Machine learning improves oil and gas monitoring<\/a>“, 9 June 2017, Talking IoT in Energy<\/em>). <\/span>DNV GL<\/a> has explored the use of DL (actually Microsoft Azur Machine Learning<\/a>) to predict corrosion in pipelines and concluded that the “performance achieved” was “extremely promising” (Jo \u00d8vstaas, “Big data and machine learning for prediction of corrosion in pipelines<\/a>“, 12 Jun 2017, DNV GL). Had Italy and the UK benefited from such systems, both the “explosion at a major processing facility in Austria, which is the main point of entry for Russian gas into Europe”, and the “shutdown of the North Sea\u2019s most important oil and gas pipeline system”, respectively on 11 and 12 December 2017, <\/span>with major consequences for European supply <\/span>(<\/span>Jillian Ambrose and<\/span> Gordon Rayner, “<\/span>Gas shortage to push up bills after ‘perfect storm’ of energy problems<\/a>“, 12 Dec 2017, <\/span>The Telegraph<\/em>), would most probably not have happened – assuming, of course, investments related to response had been done.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further, DL is also increasingly part of the development of what is called “Smart Factory”. <\/span>“In April 2017, PCITC and Huawei jointly announced a smart manufacturing platform… a core part of Smart Factory 2.0 within the Sinopec Group”. Notably, one of the capability of the platform “creates a ‘smart brain’ for petrochemical plants using deep learning and reasoning data.” (Huawei, “Huawei Joins Hands with PCITC to Embrace Smart Factory 2.0<\/a>“, 13 Nov 2017, PRNewswire<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With NVDIA’s “Metropolis AI Smart Cities Platform”, Huawei’s video content management product supports and uses Deep Learning for “accurate face recognition, pedestrian-vehicle structuring and reverse image search”, also cooperating with the Shenzhen Police. Always with Metropolis, Alibaba Cloud\u2019s City Brain uses AI for services such as “real-time traffic management and prediction, city services and smarter drainage systems”, improving for example “traffic congestion by as much as 11 percent in Hangzhou\u2019s pilot district” (Saurabh Jain, “Alibaba, Huawei Adopt NVIDIA\u2019s Metropolis AI Smart Cities Platform<\/a>“, 25 Sept 2017, NVDIA blog<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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