Huahai Yang
Juji, Inc.
Huahai is CTO of Juji, Inc., an artificial intelligence company that builds conversational systems that understand people. Prior to co-founding Juji, Inc., Huahai was a Professor of Information Science at SUNY Albany and then a Research Scientist at IBM Research and IBM Watson. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in a field that intersects Psychology and Computer Science. He has written award winning software and has coded mainly in Clojure since 2012.
A Clojure fusion of symbolic and data driven AI
The success of deep learning has again raised the hope for artificial intelligence (AI). As the understanding of the strengths of deep learning deepens, a desire to combine it with other approach emerges. Clojure’s data oriented programming is shown to offer a perfect bridge between symbolic and data driven AI. In this talk, we introduce REP, a domain specific language embedded in Clojure that provides the quickest path to authoring a chat bot. We show how Clojure enables us to combine the strength of symbolic and data driven approach of machine learning to build an AI platform that is easy to use, even for non-programmers.