CHAPTER 5
How AI Fits into Your Data Science Team
An interview with Hilary Mason by Walter Frick
How should we put AI into practice? Where in the organization should these capabilities sit, and how should companies take advantage of them? To get a practical, on-the-ground view, HBR senior editor Walter Frick spoke with Hilary Mason, the founder of Fast Forward Labs, a machine intelligence research firm. Here are excerpts from their conversation.
HBR: As a data scientist and a researcher, how do you think about the recent progress in your field?
Mason: If we were having this conversation in the late 2000s, it would have been about big data—about whether we could even build the infrastructure to get all the data into one place and to query it. ...
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