Sebastain Thrun:
- Artificial Intelligence represents an opportunity for lessons learned to be applied on all systems and including systems not made yet.
- Business leaders often want to go a certain direction but available toolsets including education did not keep up.
- Anything repetitive would likely be done by AI within 20 years.
Erik Brynjolfsson. Director, MIT Initative on Digital Economy:
- Book: The Second Machine Age
- Three trends:
- Power
- Data
- Algorithms
- Machines with very narrow specialty.
- Machine learning - when to use and when not to use. Find the problem then find the solution. Identify the questions.
- Image recognition - machines are way better.
- Lots of churn under the surface so you have to be working on opportunities even though it looks like nothing is happening.
- Examples:
- A team looked flight patterns and was able to predict merger and acquisitions.
- A team used logs from locomotives to identify improvements to be made.
- Finance showed massive improvements - 360,000 hours into few seconds (JP Morgan).
- Need to watch ethics and privacy issues.
Gautam Khera. AI Executive Leader in Fortune 500 companies:
- Every organization within a company should be thrilled about the AI journey.