The word "disruptive" is more often than not associated with artificial intelligence. Media hype tells us that AI robots will soon have replaced humans around the world. Although media hype made it much easier to obtain AI budgets, we need to know where we stand if we want to implement an AI solution. If we want to innovate, we need to find the cutting edge and build new ideas from there.
Why not just plunge into the tools and see what happens? Is that a good idea or a risky one? Unlike corporations with huge budgets, a single human has limited resources. If you spend time learning in the wrong direction, it will take months to gather enough experience in another better direction to reach your goal. For example, suppose you have trouble classifying large amounts of data (see the example in Chapter 7, When and How to Use Artificial Intelligence); you...