Jazz, automating code creation at scale by Santiago Basaldúa
Channel: OpenExpo Europe by MyPublicInbox
Date: 2020-09-11

In this OpenExpo Virtual Experience talk, Santiago Basaldúa introduces us to  Jazz. Santiago is Senior Data Scientist at BBVA.

About Jazz: 
Jazz was originally created at BBVA to push retrieval of precomputed results to the next level by combining the speed of memory mapped vector technology with cluster communication at scale. It was released as open source in December 2017. 
The Jazz development team has been working without interruption since then, focusing originally on the efficiency side. We have always acknowledged that there is room for improvement over state of the art platforms, especially when it comes to exploring different ideas. 
By the end of 2019, we have identified the "big idea" we want Jazz to shine tackling. It is a classic AI idea approached since the beginning of the field by McCarthy and Minsky, automated code generation. We now have a fully functioning proof of concept implementation and promising results. This is  the moment of sharing it. 
This webinar is the first communication from the Jazz team since our 2019 pivot, we briefly review Jazz history so far, introduce the problems, solutions and results targeting a wide audience interested in technical content explained simply.