In 2017 Stanford Professor and Coursera founder, Andrew Ng, declared Artificial Intelligence to be the new electricity. “Just as electricity transformed industry after industry 100 years ago, I think AI will now do the same”. Fast forward two years… Are we seeing business and commerce upturned by intelligent machines?
Opinion
March 10, 2019
“Businesses are devaluing the concept of AI”
Artificial Intelligence was supposed to be 'the new electricity' but most companies are not really using AI to its full capacity, says Jeffrey Ng, chief scientist at Founders Factory.
4 min read
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