As I’ve said, my first book for Business Expert Press was published in August of 2015 and was entitled Preventing Litigation: An Early Warning System to Get Big Value Out of Big Data. I didn’t see the hint of AI and deep learning until I was nearly finished with the editing process.
Previously, I had learned to “follow the money.” So, for example, I noted that, in 2014, Google had acquired DeepMind (for something like $650 million) and that MetaMind had been launched in December that same year with an $8 million investment by Marc Benioff, the founder, chairman and co-CEO of Salesforce and by Vinod Khosla, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems and a renowned Silicon Valley investor.
The “big picture” was ...
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