I work for another company at that time was an advocacy, a lobbyist like an opportunity working campaigns. I worked on capitol hill, or for governor and are the pleasure to work for a company and i really think it makes contributions to society. Host microsoft seems to be researching. Is that a Fair Assessment . Guest from my perspective i think weve always been kind of flying high and doing some outstanding things. I think its been an exciting time with microsoft what comes to the cloud we want to be unintelligent edge of one of our missions is to empower persons and organizations on the planet to achieve more. I think youll find today as you go to different displays we have 1212, with Microsoft Research since 1991. What youre going to see as result of drone, such as, some efficiencies of help make a difference for farmers and also using tv white spaces which is something the sec is looking at. To help farmers to be more efficient and effective and as a result also be able to do things cheaper. Youll get to see intelligence vehicles to augment reality. Youll see a lot of things when you walk around that have a societal impact. It relates to the cloud, relates to efficiency, relates to a and the internet of things. Host it seems theres a big investment by microsoft in ai. A lot of these displays are about Artificial Intelligence. Guest its something for us weve been focused on for a while. Had the opportunity i think to meet the leader in ai technical fellow in our microsoft refers to talk about it its the future. Thats what youll see here today. Future technologies that on horizon. Host we will walk in just a minute but one more issue. Cybersecurity, what would you like to see congress do . Guest on the cyber side, we really need a lot of wor worn which the rules of the road, whats the framework on how we look at cybersecurity. I think congress, whether its by partisan support on, i think the Trump Administration is looking to focus on that as well. We look to respect as well. One of the things thats very, very important as we have these different cyber issues when it comes to viruses or malicious software. Its always important, right . But when you get a little pop up that says hey, you need to do an update, cyber hygiene is very, very critical for all of us, as well as for companies to make sure theyre doing their part to protect their software and their technologies on the cyber front. Host when brad smith sent out a blog post talking about government should not be stockpiling vulnerability. What does he mean by that . Guest i think it speaks for himself. Everybody needs to be responsible when it comes to cyber aspects. When things, unfortunately, are available on the web, sometimes you have bad actors out there and so you need to think about what you are keeping, and that needs to be protected. I just think on that one, on the stockpiling, i think it speaks for itself. Host Fred Humphries come, youre one of the big five, 66 that companies. Do you work with the other Big Tech Companies, washington offices on a regular basis . Guest absolute. We work with not just the tech companies. Microsoft has a lot of partners, its a big ecosystem but we do work with the Big Tech Companies and we work with them on interest from ai, if at some privacy, cybersecurity, if its from autonomous vehicles, drones, whatever, different Public Policy issues. We are constantly working with them. Still the protection of intellectual property, trade, and those type of issues. What you find is theres a lot of Public Policy agreement when it comes to the tech industry. And then on the business side we all do what we need to do to be competitive and to advance and expose people to our technologies. I would say theres really a lot of harmony among the companies when it comes to Public Policy. Host have biggest microsoft today, do you know how many employees . Guest about globally 118,000 employees. Host Fred Humphries is a Vice President of Government Affairs at microsoft. They keep for your time. Guest thank you. Host the communicators is at the washington, d. C. , office of microsoft for their annual tech fair, now we are the farm beach booth with ranveer chandra. What are we looking at . Guest here we are presenting a project called farm beat. The goal is to solve the worlds food problem. We need to feed the growing population. How to do that . Given the that of land is the same, how do you recommend private conscious why . In order to do that we look at the solution. Previously people have been looking at this problem. For example, datadriven agriculture, these examples, the edgy about precision agriculture is instead of treating a promise of modules you treat the farm is heterogeneous to what that means is you apply water only where its needed when its needed where its needed. You apply fertilizer only where its needed, as this is only what is needed. You can plant seeds close together. All the stuff is host Artificial Intelligence and uncle ted to do agriculture, how do you use those to improve farming . Guest outcome to that. In precision agriculture we need these. We need to be able to build water maps like how do the nutrients vary from the farm . How to build these kind of maps . Existing approaches to build this are very expensive. They cost like, the cheapest sensors were five sensors for 8000. For a farmer to invest a kind of money, its asking too much. The goal of this project is to reduce the cost of precision, datadriven agriculture by two orders of magnitude. From 800 8000 we want to get doo eight. We talk about different innovations. The first one is about connectivity. Most of these arms are known midwest, in order, the recent descent is so expensive is because they use satellite to send all the data. That is very expensive. Instead will use is in the technology called the whitespace. Suppose you have a device at home you plug it into your house. If you can access a few miles away, how do we do that . The way we do that is by sending wifi signals in tv channels. For example, you see channel it or something going on, satellite is free. Channel tender Something Else going on. In channel line we can send these wifi signals without interfering with her tv transmissions that are happening in channel eight or nine. The reason this is so cool is because these are lower frequency. The same power level of wifi. Your signals could go four times farther. This is an free space. Your signals could go even farther. The interesting thing about agriculture is in the farms which are away from the cities there are a lot more empty tv channels, fewer people so theres more empty tv channels. Like if you have 40 tv channels are talking more than what you can do is wifi connector house pick the vision is the tv whitespace can connect your farm. You plug it in and the entire a few muskets connected. Host what are some the things the farmer can do . Guest the other things is where merging drone dated with sensor data. You dont need, for example, usually we can do this kind of map, you put one every ten m break this approach you can have a few centers, merge it with the drone image and be able to do this. The other thing is were doing everything writing here, its running on a pc in the farmer sells. We dont need to ship all the data from the farm to the cloud. We could be sending drone videos, get deep learning that way. This is trained on cows but using this deep learning, just learning on that pc. Its not running in the cloud. This is all local computation. All of a sudden we are bringing down the cost of an entire system requiring fewer centers by using the tv white spaces instead of satellites, by running a boy in the gateway rod that should be obligated to the club. You are doing Machine Learning, deep learning. The kind of things were doing host before you get to the deployment, why is it important we know these are people, somebodys wearing a tie, some cows are running around . Guest in the context of cows, if you have these you can monitor whether theres an attorney, how the cows are doing, where some cows are static, so all that, you can do counting. Are you missing some cows . All that stuff can be done using this. This is just for demo purpose. Host all right. Try to going back to the deployments as we see walking to the kind of scenarios we have to these are some of the diplomas, three deployments. They kind of insights we can provide are, for example, this is a fourkilometer stretch. The cows are out of pastor. This is where the cows are. This is a stray cow that needs to be heard in. This is again using drones we can collect all this data. We can flag this moisture map. This part was moist without having a sensor, if we didnt have a central using Machine Learning ai approach we are able to come up with these dense sensor heat maps. This is after the farmer applied to line. This needs to be fixed. Once we get out to the farmers, the farmers use this for storage monitoring. The food produced in combat. The last one is of course there are many more scenarios that we are running. Host are these being used in the real world today . Guest we are working with farmers, with partners on getting this deployed. We have to live deployments, three. Were stretching, document or people. Theres theres a lot of interest because what this is as a complete end to. We can adjust the data from sensors, drones, cameras and provide useful services. What services would provide the specific to the farmer. We are working with each one of them to see whats the most beneficial thing done what is your background . Guest i have a phd in Computer Science from cordoba to did go up in the farm growing up. Going up in india every summer, four months a year of its been in the farm in india. Ive seen farming in india, and eventual goal is somehow we can benefit the farmers, able to do something for them, to the back to them, make the more profitable. Host this is the farm beats display at the microsoft tech fair. And jaime burke s, what is Cognitive Services . Guest Cognitive Services is our collection of the microsoft brain that fits in aquatic and very specific task. So they can do things like face detection, vision. If you look over at the public website theres a list of all the services we released even in preview. We are actually pushing all these functions out as soon as its ready to really empower them. We can see theres a group of vision, api seeking his face detection or motion detection, speech, text, translate and is incredible. At the end of it people have the habit every Time Microsoft would use text, the language is irrelevant. They can be translated into any language now. This is a really host is Microsoft Tool available to everybody . Guest yes. Its allencompassing technology for our Cloud Software service and a platform. A number of our technologies live in the cloud. We can call upon these and essentially these are all very easy to set up. To give an example and a second, there are available to give leaves on a public website. You can try this very, very easily just with an outlook account for example. Heres a simple example of what of our of one of our Cognitive Services or i want to search for things to do in d. C. I found a website that is publicly available on the city. It pulls up this website. Have i ever read an essay q . What ive done is i grabbed that, go to her q and a simple login putting in the url, its captured or im not edit in any format. Its captured the question and answers. You can see all the text of the questions and answers. This is what it would look like if i publish it to the persons website. I can ask questions here, and i it will go off and find the answer and present it to be just like that. The whole process of grabbing a website or uploading a document introducing this q a process is about two minutes it took me. Websites like that can use benefit of this technology and they start trimming down the questions. For example, it could be how can i tour the white house . What time is White House Open . This is a simple example. Host is thei there artificil intelligence what you just did . Guest theres a bit of ai more towards machine one aspect. What i can do in the corner is at other ways to add questions, pick my example which was can i tour the white house . I could answer would be possible to Wander Around the white house . The giveaways of context i would ought to ask the question and thats what Machine Learning aspect comes in to offer the same solution to budget of the questions. Host lets work her way down to see what else microsoft has in the way of Cognitive Services. Guest another example is this the indexing service. This is really useful technology if your your criteria video yot to go to deliver to the masses, with the estate presentation or a discussion. This is our ceo pick usually change the openness of our companies. A lot of things are yet to be fully released. Were still showing the route to the public so we can learn from the. What this is doing is recognizing faces some of you. Its recognizing the sentiments so we see other deliver it, whether its positively delivered or negative delivered. This is Scott Guthrie who, it is recognized the face and you can see the dna looking for what scott is talking. From an accessibility standpoint what i want to create these videos i want to create a transcription because people may be hard of hearing what you may want different language. What its done in the one hour video when i upload it, it took 50 mystical to the process and atoll written that in text. As i mentioned before before whatever were text, you can think of it as language irrelevant. I can very easily click on any language. Tyvoltaiwan just to go back, yod a gentleman up over here, mr. Humphries, Scott Guthrie was his point is hes not the speaker . Guest hes one of the speakers from the group us because we are talking. Enforcement is taking a little while, while, is this connected to what we are doing. Guest no. Thats just the conversation around 2017. Its taken a little longer. Host are right. Guest thi this is a bit of fun. Lets say what if i were supermen . Get ready to stand in the middle. Here is what you look like if you were supermen. The interesting thing is everyone is happy its like we are now and laughing, if everyone is sad, frowning, the box is like that, gets upset that you dont like host all right. Guest the Technology Behind that is pretty impressive. It knows who supermen is and knows its taking a photo of your face and then superimposing it over the face of superman. Host you have your agent detector. Guest this is more than agent detector. First of all, you know so it is completely anonymous, no names or anything but i can train the model to add people like this chap here. There we go, harrison ford. Also i can add myself and is will and knows william because ive trained a model. I got into the settings and ive added in my name. Host it makes people older than they are. Guest sometimes to be on the lights come again. The interesting thing if you walk up and gives you low number, advocates happy and the sentiment goes up. In the real world where you would jesus is exactly this, youd adolescent crowds if you have it and add enjoy take capture people sentiment and completely anonymously you could use. Host is there a privacy issue . Guest absolutely. Privacy is one of our most important part as a security. We only would use this with proper signage and they would be informed for this is captured but its anonymous. The interesting thing, the technology is capturing, human faces are very easy dejected whats its doing is sending this bit of information on a roundtrip to the cloud and gathering information online. Sent to become my age endothelium based on that setting. Host this information that you are and i are standing in front of, this is going out into the world . Guest not the world, the cloud. You can set this up, its going to my set up into my environment. Visiting a roundtrip to might and im not scoring it. We are just for trying the anonymous at the bottom. Host when you are on your, Jaime Burgess, there was a percentage next to your name. Guest thats actually how actually it is portraying my age. Even my neighbors will. They secrete the percentage is how close to the thing it is getting, its a, stand with Machine Learning is you want to look at what its trying to identify and accurately they can identify that. You see what i show harrison ford, 66 , 60 it is sure it is harrison ford. Host okay. I can, whats the use of this . Guest imagine i was delivering a speech or talking to many people i dont want the analyst sentiments. If i have a new concept i want to lead to an audience and a talk about the concept, during the moment is difficult to get a feel come youre trying to deliver your message. What you can do is upload the video and see the summit of the speaker but not the audience. We had the new post technology thats built into one of our so people can vote online with emoji together aspect is i can faces to an audience and pick up their sentiments. If i was smart enough and i can also talk with an ap summit your i could have someone analyze the sentiments and be advised me what things to talk what if im losing an audience or if i need to gain their interest again. Host is a political speech element to this . Guest i could be doing a speech, anything where there were many people in the audience. Host Jaime Burgess of microsoft picked this is a look at their Cognitive Services. Thank you for your time. Guest no problem, thank you. Host kurt hunter of microsoft, what are we seeing happening right now . Guest we are showing 3d printing. When does dan has built in support for 3d printing so were enabling the ecosystem much in same way we have in other computer peripherals like regular printing