Top Execs on Their Big Data and AI Initiatives

Some great points here on how far we have to go:
– 69.0% of firms report that they have not created a data-driven culture
– 53.1% of firms state they are not yet treating data as a business asset
– The biggest challenges to the business adoption of Big Data and AI initiatives stem from  multiple factors — organizational alignment, agility, resistance — with 95.0% stemming from cultural challenges (people and process), and only 5.0% relating to technology

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2019/01/02/what-we-learned-from-top-execs-about-their-big-data-and-ai-initiatives/#4e41c3b3452a

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Decentralized AI and the rise of the edge

Watch for some of these new models to drive growth.

“Over the next year we will see new businesses forming to compete for the ideal “edge” solution – whether it’s through browsers, such as Brave; Apple’s use of differential privacy; set-top boxes and home gateways, such as the Databox platform (with which one of us Hamed Haddadi is involved); or personal microservers, such as Hub-of-All-Things (of which the author Irene Ng is the creator).”

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/decentralised-artificial-intelligence

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