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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

Looking to the future

AA: What excites you the most about the future of AI in the APS?

MM: Like I said at the start, the ability to make a genuine difference in our nation is phenomenal, and we are just at the start of seeing the potential for it. I’ve been in government now for 12-and-a-half years, and in that time we’ve gone from small, bespoke projects (at a few different organizations in narrow areas) to everybody understanding the value of data and AI and trying to do it. I’m so excited about the potential, but I’m also nervous about people charging in without actually understanding how to do it well and without understanding what might be solvable. I have definitely seen AI done badly. I’ve seen AI being used for what I would consider to just be a plain math problem. 2 + 2 is always 4. It’s not somewhere between 3.8 and 4.2. It is always 4. If it’s math, please use math. Just use a normal algorithm.

I’ve also seen...