November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
70 pages
1h 30m
English
book
Achieving Real Business Outcomes from Artificial Intelligence
by Atif Kureishy, Chad Meley, Ben Mackenzie
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Chapter 1. Artificial Intelligence and Our World
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have sparked increased interest in what the technology can accomplish. It’s true that there’s hype—as there often is with any breakthrough technology—but AI is not just another fad. Computers have been evolving steadily from machines that follow instructions to ones that can learn from experience in the form of data. Lots and lots of it.
The accomplishments are already impressive and span a variety of fields. Google DeepMind has been used to master the game of Go; autonomous vehicles are detecting and reacting to pedestrians, road signs, and lanes; and computer scientists at Stanford have created an artificially intelligent diagnosis algorithm that is just as accurate as dermatologists in identifying skin cancer. AI has even become commonplace in consumer products and can be easily recognized in our virtual assistants (e.g., Siri and Alexa) that understand and respond to human language in real time.
These are just a few examples of how AI is affecting our world right now. Many effects of AI are unknown, but one thing is becoming clearer: the adoption of AI technology—or lack of it—is going to define the future of the enterprise.
A New Age of Computation
AI is transforming the analytical landscape, yet it has also been around for decades in varying degrees of maturity. Modern AI, however, refers to systems that behave with intelligence without being explicitly programmed. These systems ...
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