“A tipping point for advancing AI’s business value”
Look around. AI is everywhere. From our daily use of Siri, Cortana, and/or Alexa to Netflix’s ability to recommend exactly what we like to watch on TV at any time. For someone like me who has been working in the field of AI for more than 20 years, the state of AI today continues to amaze me. In the earlier days, creating AI models was, in a word, difficult . Building an AI algorithm, testing it, and re-training the model. This was a hard process. Now, our ability to store and process large amounts of data; readily-available, easy-to-deploy AI; and cognitive and analytics services in the cloud have changed everything, giving AI techies and business leaders alike massive abilities we couldn’t have imagined just two decades ago. As AI applications roll out every day, the question remains, “What’s the business ROI?” This is where scaling up AI becomes difficult. How can we leap forward in our efforts to ensure that AI’s tipping point for digital transformation delivers real busine...