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Creators of Intelligence

By : Dr. Alex Antic
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Creators of Intelligence

By: Dr. Alex Antic

Overview of this book

A Gartner prediction in 2018 led to numerous articles stating that "85% of AI and machine learning projects fail to deliver.” Although it's unclear whether a mass extinction event occurred for AI implementations at the end of 2022, the question remains: how can I ensure that my project delivers value and doesn't become a statistic? The demand for data scientists has only grown since 2015, when they were dubbed the new “rock stars” of business. But how can you become a data science rock star? As a new senior data leader, how can you build and manage a productive team? And what is the path to becoming a chief data officer? Creators of Intelligence is a collection of in-depth, one-on-one interviews where Dr. Alex Antic, a recognized data science leader, explores the answers to these questions and more with some of the world's leading data science leaders and CDOs. Interviews with: Cortnie Abercrombie, Edward Santow, Kshira Saagar, Charles Martin, Petar Veličković, Kathleen Maley, Kirk Borne, Nikolaj Van Omme, Jason Tamara Widjaja, Jon Whittle, Althea Davis, Igor Halperin, Christina Stathopoulos, Angshuman Ghosh, Maria Milosavljevic, Dr. Meri Rosich, Dat Tran, and Stephane Doyen.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Chapter 1: Introducing the Creators of Intelligence

Watching the field evolve

AA: How have you seen the field evolve over your 20-year career? How have you seen it change in terms of attitudes in organizations toward leveraging analytics to change decision-making? I think it’s still quite new for many organizations. Would you agree?

AG: I completely agree with you. I think attitudes toward analytics have changed completely over the last 20 years. I’ll talk about the fundamental reason first, then move to the technical, and then answer the specific question on organizations and the business front.

I think there is a fundamental reason why it has changed, evolved, and grown so much. The reason is not to do with the foundation of statistics and mathematics because, as you are well aware, some of the models or theories were already there. Neural networks are not something new.

Over the last 20 years, we saw the growth of computers, with the number of chips multiplying along with computing power and storage. We have...