I just just finished a 6 week MIT-Sloan course on AI, called: Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy.
It was an excellent course, and it exceeded my expectations.
Here are three of many takeaways for me which stand out:
- Artificial Intelligence ( all aspects of AI, including machine learning, deep learning, robotics , and natural language processing ) requires massive amounts of data and processing speed. The amount of data required for effective AI is huge, and gives companies with ownership of massive data sets a significant advantage.
- I am not to impressed with self-driving cars. Although I see the market for commercial use ( such as trucks ), I think the consumer’s desire for self-driving cars is overrated.
- AI is giving us the ability to extract significant quantities of information from large data sets, and, to a lesser extent, this is creating new knowledge sets, but I don’t believe it offers much in terms of what to do with that knowledge. Rephrased, because of AI, our knowledge may grow, but I doubt our wisdom will.
For those of you interested in Artificial Intelligence, and who also have about 6-8 hours a week to devote to a course, it is well worth it.