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How Artificial Intelligence Is Making The Shift From System To Ecosystem
When IBM first debuted its Watson system on the game show Jeopardy! in 2011, it was like something out of science fiction. Here was a computer that could not only understand spoken questions, but answer them faster and more accurately than the best human players. Nobody had ever seen anything even remotely like it before.
Today, less than a decade later, artificial intelligence has been transformed from the incredible to something approaching the mundane. Not only do we have capabilities that are similar to the original Watson system on our phones, we can access top-notch resources from a number of companies, often for free.
Yet probably the biggest difference from those early days of Watson is how AI has evolved from a system to an ecosystem. Much like the evolution from mainframes to personal computers, companies now can access different components to build a system designed specifically for their business. That’s how a technology becomes transformational.
Acquiring Data Resources
What makes artificial intelligence different than earlier technologies is that the system learns as data is fed into it. So data is the fuel that makes the whole thing work. That’s why Josh Sutton, CEO of Agorai, a platform that helps companies build…
