June 2020
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
8h 32m
English
Content preview from Enterprise Artificial Intelligence Transformation
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Foreword: Artificial Intelligence and the New Generation of Technology Building Blocks
Over the past few years, I have been fortunate to discuss artificial intelligence (AI) with C-suite executives from the largest companies in the world, along with developers and entrepreneurs just getting started in this area. These interactions impressed on me how quickly the conversation is becoming commonplace for business executives, even though AI in business is still in its infancy. As you pick up this book, I hope you realize what an incredible time we live in and how transformative having computers that can mimic cognitive abilities will be in the coming years and decades. Digital transformation is becoming a commodity play as organizations shift into the cloud, and business leaders must plan for and utilize a new set of technology building blocks to help differentiate their companies. Of these, the single biggest impact, in my opinion, will come from AI.
When I entered the software industry over 25 years ago, everything we built revolved around three core elements: computing, storage, and networking, all of which were evolving at an incredible rate:
- Computing – 286 to 386 to 486 to Pentium, and more
- Storage – 5¼″ floppy to 3½″ floppy, to iOmega drives, to thumb drives, and more
- Networking – corporate network to dial-up modem to DSL, to 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, and more
The evolution of these building blocks created new computing infrastructure modes (client computing to client-server, to ...
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