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By Michael Hu · Apr 2018 AI is the darling of the moment and the corporate meme-stream. So much so, it’s forcing some CFOs into tough discussions with executive teams that are overly anxious to gamble with current assets in hopes of gaining future competitive advantages. How can companies avoid overspending in AI? AI certainly holds serious… Continue reading How to Avoid Overspending on AI
By Michael Hu · Jan 2017 AI progress has been uneven in the past 5 decades, with spurts of breakthrough followed by “winter-like” stagnation. Barriers like technology cost, organization capability and ineffective policies held back AI from going mainstream. Yet, this trend shifted starting in 2005 with performance breakthroughs across numerous cognitive applications. Convergent advances across… Continue reading Artificial Intelligence Coming of Age
By Michael Hu · Nov 2016 Last week, I facilitated a cross-functional workshop with The World Economic Forum, and several tech startups (Noodle A.I., Rage Framework, Enterra) to investigate the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on global production and value chain. WEF NY Workshop 1) The very definition of A.I. itself is vague - we… Continue reading AI + Future of Production with WEF