Designing an "AI First" Company Means Starting with AI and Then Plugging in HumansI wrote my book The Way of the Navigator in 2013 to help business leaders and policy makers understand many of the ways AI would impact business, the workfor...
Wall Street: Opportunities for Artificial Intelligence in Long/Short EquityWhen we talk about the opportunities for Artificial Intelligence on Wall Street we tend to talk about and focus on the big and very real opportunities in tra...
Four Things a Chief AI Officer brings to your company As the potential of AI is is becoming more clear to corporate boards, CEO’s and investors the pressure is on for every large company, as well as every start-...
It isn’t just 40% of European start-ups claiming to “do AI” when they aren’tMMC Ventures, an investment firm based in London, released the results of a study it conducted of 2,830 European start-ups who claimed to be using AI and fou...
If the person leading your AI efforts doesn't have this resume you are in trouble60% of AI projects (and digital transformation) fail and/or go undeployed. Yet, 88% of c-suite leaders report that their companies plan to boost AI investmen...
Can Li Deng, Chief AI Scientist at Citadel, Change Wall Street?Let me start out by saying that Li Deng is a genius. This is undeniable. Everyone in the AI world knows this. When he was recruited by Citadel from Microsoft...
I Disagree With Kai-Fu LeeKai-Fu Lee is one of many people predicting that AI and robots are going to take all of our jobs. I am also guilty of this hype. In 2014 I wrote extensively ...
Do you have a Chief Automation Officer yet? If not, you should and here is why.I have written and spoken a lot about why your company should hire a Chief AI Officer (here). But you should not only hire a CAIO you should also hire a Chie...
Which CXO owns the various strategic AI initiatives in your organization? I continue to ask this question, and with a recent report by McKinsey showing that 37% of companies who embark down the AI transformation path see significan...
Amazon is AUTOMATING EVERYTHING and is coming for your business soon Amazon continually looks at every aspect of their vast business and asks “What can we automate today?” Now they are increasingly looking around at other mark...
Does every company need a bot?Companies are spending millions of dollars to create bots because, let’s face it, intelligent conversational interfaces are definitely the future of search a...
This is Interesting: 64% of Employer's Do NOT Think AI Will Impact Their HeadcountAt Davos this week the CEO of Manpower, a global talent services company, released the findings of a study based on interviews they conducted with 18,000 emp...
Yes, Your Company Does Need a Chief AI OfficerRecently the head of Baidu research, Stanford University professor and Google Brain Co-Founder Andrew Ng sat down with Fortune and spoke about the need for c...
How to Successfully Recruit an AI TeamIn just a few short years we have come from a place where Artificial Intelligence wasn’t even a dot on the radar of most corporate executives to today where ...
The AI Race for Big Data SetsMobileye and Tesla continue their war of words over why their relationship ended with Mobileye recently claiming that they felt Tesla released its auto pilot...
Wall Street and Artificial IntelligenceWall Street has always been an early adopter of new and innovative technologies and its growing enthusiasm towards AI technologies is showing that once again...
Autonomous Cars Are Like ElevatorsI love to research and learn about new things. In the evenings after my daughters are in bed I just explore Wikipedia and the web for hours. I don’t know abo...
Prediction: Robots Will Replace Our Doctors Before They Replace Our CarpentersWhich jobs do you think are most at risk of takeover by smart machines powered by Artificial Intelligence? Most of us agree that factory work is ripe for tak...
Meet your new Robot ManagerMost people assume that robots will be used by people as some type of assistant. In current parlance we call this “AI Augmentation”. We imagine them being cu...
So you want to build an AI team?Company executives in every industry are quickly becoming aware that AI will have a dramatic impact on their industry. They are reading the tea leaves and re...