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AI Business / AI Projects / Artificial Intelligence / Book / Machine Learning July 19, 2021
READ MOREWhat does it take to make an AI project successful? Considering their high failure rate, it’s a mistake to jump in too quickly without asking this question. I see success factors in four categories: Data, Domain knowledge, Technology, and Team. Most data scientists are taught disproportionately about technology, with little emphasis on the other three […]
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Applied AI / Artificial Intelligence / Book / Decision Intelligence / Introductory July 9, 2021
READ MOREOn any given day, organizations of every type, size, and vertical face numerous operations and business process challenges. They’re looking for better, faster, cheaper: improved service, better products, more satisfied customers, and higher revenues. Increasingly, part of the answer is found in the application of AI to these challenges. Indeed, for some markets, AI is rapidly […]
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As I’ve explained in previous posts, many organizations are rushing to enter the AI fray, hiring teams of data scientists, coders, and project managers in the urgency to get into the game. But what many teams retain in terms of dedication and enthusiasm for AI projects, they often lack in understanding of the art of […]
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Applied AI / Artificial Intelligence / Book / Decision Intelligence / Introductory / Product Management June 16, 2021
READ MORETypically, AI innovation teams want to use AI to solve important problems that people or the business really need solved, which could not be solved by other traditional approaches. In practice, we tend to misjudge what the customer needs, under-estimate what alternative approaches can accomplish, and overestimate our AI abilities. This is a standard recipe […]
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The robotics team had a great idea. Why not use self-driving car technology for a task that was essentially easier, and could make money on the way to autonomous nirvana? And, as often happens, they were pitching me for investment. A solid and practical team, I liked these guys for their clever concept: to build self-driving (“robot”) industrial […]
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Applied AI / Artificial Intelligence / Big Data / Book / Introductory June 6, 2021
READ MOREAs I introduced earlier, AI is moving from a research endeavor to an applied art. Enterprises are starting to deploy AI to solve real-world problems. There are gaps as theory struggles to meet the challenges of practice, and these gaps lead to failed or underperforming AI and ML projects. This situation is shown in the […]
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Applied AI / Artificial Intelligence / Book / Introductory June 6, 2021
READ MOREIf you’re a CEO, a CTO, product manager, a member of a start-up or an investor in a project that includes AI, you need real answers and practical solutions to some hard questions and problems: How well do we understand our customers and the value we bring to them? How good does the AI system […]
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Applied AI / Artificial Intelligence / Book / Introductory June 6, 2021
READ MOREArtificial Intelligence (AI)—including Machine Learning (ML)—stands at this same precipice today as it transitions into the mass market. Yet because we are only beginning this process, there is a missing body of knowledge—you might say an unwritten book on the shelf. This is the knowledge that’s essential to developing AI applications with low risk, high value, and high adoption, across the thousands of use cases in which the technology can provide massive value to humanity worldwide.
