Deep Learning Will Empower Not Replace Humans, Says Artificial Intelligence World Expert Edgar Perez

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Deep Learning Will Empower Not Replace Humans, Says Artificial
Intelligence World Expert Edgar Perez
Edgar Perez, author of The AI Breakthrough, Knightmare on Wall Street and The Speed Traders
and former strategy consultant with McKinsey, partnering with Terrapinn Training in 3-Day
Masterclass in Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
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.