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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

Developing responsible AI pathways

Alex Antic: I’d like to begin by learning a bit about you and your career trajectory. What made you pivot into human rights, and then ultimately into AI and ethics, and then become an academic in responsible tech?

Edward Santow: I specialized in human rights very early in my career as a lawyer. I’d always had this sense that I really wanted to help people if I can put it as vaguely as that, and that pathway toward human rights felt like a very natural one for me. In terms of the connection to technology, there were two crucial moments that took place two jobs ago.

I used to be the chief executive of an organization called the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC). PIAC exists to provide free legal advice and assistance to people who can’t afford lawyers. There was an enormous amount of work we did with Indigenous communities and others who had suffered very significant injustice. There were two specific cases that really...