2020年12月11日星期五

MIT Sloan Webinar – Adopting AI: Picking the Right Problems to Solve

 MIT Sloan Management Review arranged AI webinar named “Adopting AI: Picking the Right Problems to Solve” on 11th Dec 2020.  Executives in most industries have heard about artificial intelligence’s potential to transform their businesses, but many aren’t sure where to start — or how to gain the most value from efforts already underway. This free webinar addressed those AI adoption hurdles with expert insights.


Firstly, Ms. Abbie Lundberg (President, Lundberg Media) was event moderator and she introduced all speakers.


Ms. Kimberly Nevala (Strategic adviser, SAS) was the first speaker and her topic named “Adopting AI: Problems AI Can Solve”. She firstly briefed AI is “The science of training systems to emulate human tasks through learning and automation.”


Then Ms. Neyala mentioned what AI do including to learn from experience, adjust to new input, automate discrete tasks and engage intuitively. She showed an interested tree to identify AI and quoted Prof. Michael Wade (Innovation and Strategy IDM Switzerland) statement to explain that “A lot of people want the AI hammer so they can whack things.  But it’s an expensive hammer and it takes time, and the right people, to get up to speed.  So the first question … is whether they really need AI – because in may cases, they don’t.”


So that she said to apply AI to problems if they are Meaningful, Well-Bounded, Data Rich, Complex (enough) and At Scale.


Ms. Monica Livingston (Senior director, AI sales, Intel) was the second speaker and her presentation was “AI or Analytics?” Ms. Livingston briefed the extract valuable insight from data such as internet user upto 25GB per month, Smart Car upto 50GB per day and Smart Factory upto 1PB per day!


Then Ms. Livingston stated the AI opportunity assessment through the business value and solution cost to prioritize business challenges.


Smart factory was identified as one of best approach to use AI.  Because large manufacturer used data to improve its operations with each challenge using a different approach to deploy maximum business value at the lowest possible cost.  Then she introduced different AI tools for different application.


After that she mentioned the different approach to Analytics and AI including Machine Learning and Deep Learning.  


Finally, Ms. Monica Livingston quoted Chief Data Scientist Survey on 2nd Nov 2020 that the most important for DS/ML and model challenge is explainability of AI.  The last diagram explained the accuracy and explainability of AI model.


Prof. Pete Smith (Chief analytics officer and professor of modern languages, University of Texas at Arlington) was the last speaker and his topic entitled “Forecasting AI in Your Enterprise”.  Firstly, he employed weather broadcaster (e.g. European model) to explain power of modeling.


Then Prof. Smith discussed the selection of the first AI targets in your context and the criteria included checklist for complex, example-based, situation-based, myth based and driven by core business processes.


And then Prof. Smith selected educational context for AI project such as student progression to graduation.  


After that Prof. Smith explained framing AI problems and approaches from x-axis from unknown (discovery) to known (optimization) and y-axis from Big Data (quantitative) to Thick Data (qualitative). Thick data is qualitative information that provides insights into the everyday emotional lives of consumers.  He said “Big Data needs Thick Data”.


Finally, Prof. Pete Smith showed some insight from Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) as AI problem. He concluded that look for business-critical decisions rather than available data sets, decisions that could be made more “smartly” or intelligently via modeling. Consider tools with “embedded analytics” across the wide variety of domains.  He reminded that learn from best practices and surface digital ethics at the end.


Q&A Session.

Reference:

MIT Sloan Management Review - https://sloanreview.mit.edu/

AI webinar registration page - https://sloanreview.mit.edu/connections-webinar-adopting-ai/


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