AI for a Better, Safer World
My Vision
To use Artificial Intelligence to make the world a Better, Safer place.
Our Mission
I have refocused Anglo Scientific as a vehicle to develop AI technologies and to back companies using AI to enhance the world we live it. I invite you to join me in this quest.
Henry Hyde-Thomson
Anglo Scientific AI Projects
We either are, or have recently been, actively involved with:
1 Maturer company (SeeQuestor) with advanced video analytics solutions for Smart Cities and Security based on cutting edge computer vision AI, Deep Learning and PetaFlop affordable supercomputers. SeeQuestor’s IPR was acquired by NYSE listed Gorilla Technology Inc in January, 2023.
1 Early Stage company (Dazlus) using AI to create new art forms, including Sai-Bot an AI Artist that creates portraits in the style of Tobias Gutmann (see next section)
1 Major Project with massive potential whose time has come: A friendly and dextrous Humanoid Robot (scroll on down)
Sai-Bot - an AI Artist
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Our Reviewer at the Barbara Seiler Gallery https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/einmal-malt-der-kuenstler-einmal-der-computer-996102048891
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Tobias Gutmann prepares Face-O-Mat
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Gutmann takes your ticket
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The Artist's Pens
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Gutmann's portrait
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The Sai-Bot station
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Sai-Bot chats
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Sai-Bot's portrait
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The printing station
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Our Reviewer holds up two portraits, one by Gutmann, one by Sai-Bot
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Sai-Bot Portrait
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Another Sai-Bot portrait
Towards a Humanoid Robot
Why am I interested in Humanoid Robots?
I am a Scientist Entrepreneur with a deep understanding of AI, dating back to the end of the 1980s when I was a Research Fellow at Imperial College and pioneered the machine learning technique known as ‘stochastic gradient descent’ now used in nearly all Deep Learning systems. I was the first to apply it to speech recognition, and went on to develop, in partnership with the UK MOD’s Malvern research lab, one of the world’s first large vocabulary speech recognition systems, and a company, Speech Machines, that provides speech to text services for creating medical records.
Ever since I started Speech Machines, I have been fascinated by the idea of talking to machines, and have watched how the maturation of speech recognition, speech synthesis and natural language processing technologies has created Siri, Alexa and the other ‘AIs’ we can talk to today. And over the last decade, there have been similar leaps forward in Computer Vision capabilities also driven by Deep Learning and the massive increases in affordable computing power provided by modern GPUs. SeeQuestor is at the forefront of these developments, applying latest generation computer vision AI technologies to video analytics and security. Equally important advances have been made in the last few years in mechanical engineering - the structures, actuators, haptic sensors and feedback systems necessary for a humanoid robot that can walk, pick up things, use tools, climb stairs and interact safely in a human environment.
I believe that with the maturation of these three key technologies - conversational AI, computer vision and robotics mechanical engineering - the time is ripe to create the world’s first “Super Friendly Everyone Got To Have One” Humanoid Robot. Much of the best technology in all three fields comes from the UK, and I myself know a great deal about the first two.
Want to know more?
Let’s make the world a better place
