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HBR Guide to AI Basics for Managers
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HBR Guide to AI Basics for Managers

by Harvard Business Review
January 2023
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
4h 8m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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CHAPTER 8

How to Spot a Machine Learning Opportunity

by Kathryn Hume

The average company faces many challenges in getting started with machine learning, including a shortage of data scientists. But just as important is a shortage of executives and nontechnical employees able to spot AI opportunities. And spotting those opportunities doesn’t require a PhD in statistics or even the ability to write code. (It will, spoiler alert, require a brief trip back to high school algebra.)

Having an intuition for how machine learning algorithms work—even in the most general sense—is becoming an important business skill. Machine learning scientists can’t work in a vacuum; business stakeholders should help them identify problems worth solving and allocate subject ...

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