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Prediction Machines
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Prediction Machines

by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb
April 2018
Beginner
272 pages
6h 20m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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In March 2017, in a keynote speech at its annual I/O event, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the company was shifting from a “mobile-first world to an AI-first world.” Then a series of announcements followed involving AI in various ways: from the development of specialized chips for optimizing machine learning, to the use of deep learning in new applications including cancer research, to putting Google’s AI-driven assistant on as many devices as possible. Pichai claimed the company was transitioning from “searching and organizing the world’s information to AI and machine learning.”

The announcement was more strategic than a fundamental change in vision. Google’s founder Larry Page outlined this path in 2002: ...

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ISBN: 9781633695689