“You need to have a clear problem identified that you are ready to tackle with analytics, and you need to know what data you will use to solve that problem. Start small, with a project that addresses a core competency of the business. Select a project that will offer a win within a year. Look…
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Will There Be An AI Productivity Boom?
“Many of the canonical superstar firms such as Google and Facebook employ relatively few workers compared to their market capitalization” because “their market value is based on intellectual property and a cadre of highly-skilled workers.” How will AI contribute to a boom? Perhaps it will happen indirectly, a process of “trickle-down” productivity, as ordinary firms…
Artificial intelligence that learns to write code
“Program synthesis, or teaching computers to code, has long been a goal of AI researchers. Trained on tens of thousands of program examples, SketchAdapt learns how to compose short, high-level programs, while letting a second set of algorithms find the right sub-programs to fill in the details. SketchAdapt is a collaboration between Solar-Lezama and Josh…
Getting smart about the future of AI
Getting smart about the future of AI Download the full report “That’s what AI technologies represent in the current period of technological change. It is now critical to carefully consider the future of AI, what it will look like, the effect it will have on human life, and what challenges and opportunities will arise as…
We analyzed 16,625 papers to figure out where AI is headed next
The rise of reinforcement learning “In the few years since the rise of deep learning, our analysis reveals, a third and final shift has taken place in AI research. As well as the different techniques in machine learning, there are three different types: supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning. Supervised learning, which involves feeding a machine…