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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

Predicting the future of AI

It’s fair to say there was a range of views on the future direction of AI from our interviewees. Different interviewees, reflecting their different research backgrounds, are putting their money on different technologies for leading us to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Nikolaj believes hybrid approaches, such as the combination of ML and OR will be successful, while Jon sees neuro-symbolic AI being the focus of the action in the next couple of decades. Petar believes that if you truly want to mimic what a general intelligence system does, you need to do reasoning over some kind of graph structure.

Petar’s prediction is that we may achieve AGI within our lifetimes. He believes that in the not-so-distant future – even in the next decade – we could have the first working example of something that might convince broad groups of people that AGI is coming.

Igor Halperin (Chapter 13) believes that AI will not compete with...