9 AI DOESN’T HAVE TO BE TOO EXPENSIVE OR COMPLICATED
by Andrew Ng
Despite the vast potential of artificial intelligence (AI), it hasn’t caught hold in most industries. Sure, it has transformed consumer internet companies such as Google, Baidu, and Amazon—all massive and data rich with hundreds of millions of users. But for projections that AI will create $13 trillion of value a year to come true, industries such as manufacturing, agriculture, and health care still need to find ways to make this technology work for them.1 Here’s the problem: The playbook that these consumer internet companies use to build their AI systems—where a single one-size-fits-all AI system can serve massive numbers of users—won’t work for these other industries.
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