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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

Getting into research

AA: What advice can you give to someone wanting to follow in your footsteps and become a researcher in this field?

PV: I think that there’s a lot of interesting advice one can give, but I’ll try to single out maybe a few pieces of advice that were most helpful for me.

I’ll preface this with a disclaimer to say the things that worked well for me might not work well for others, but at least given my temperament and my approach to research, they were quite useful.

One thing that I would highly recommend people do if they want to get started and build a good, solid career in the area, either as a research scientist or a research engineer, is to not just stop at reading papers or blog posts that they find very interesting. There’s a lot of interesting content going around nowadays from many different sources, and it’s very easy to trap yourself in a cycle of just reading about all of these different things rather than actually...