Semantic Technology

7 years, 6 months ago

The Top 6 Questions To Succeed At Artificial Intelligence

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You can’t turn anywhere without bumping into artificial intelligence, machine learning, or cognitive computing jumping out at you. Our cars brake for us, park for us, and some are even driving us. Our movie lists are filled with Ex Machina, Her, and Lucy. The news tells about the latest vendor and cool use of technology, minute by minute. Vendors are filling our voicemail and email with enticements. It’s all so very cool!

But cool doesn’t build a business. Results do.

Which brings me to the biggest barrier companies have in adopting artificial intelligence. Companies are asking the wrong questions:

  • What is artificial intelligence (or insert: machine learning or cognitive computing)?
  • Where can I use artificial intelligence?
  • What tool can I buy?

These questions put artificial intelligence into the traditional analytic processes and technology adoption box. These questions assume you will begin from the same starting point as you did for big data. You are wrong: Artificial intelligence starts with the problem to solve and works backward.

To succeed at artificial intelligence you need to ask the right questions:

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7 years, 6 months ago

The Top 6 Questions To Succeed At Artificial Intelligence

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You can’t turn anywhere without bumping into artificial intelligence, machine learning, or cognitive computing jumping out at you. Our cars brake for us, park for us, and some are even driving us. Our movie lists are filled with Ex Machina, Her, and Lucy. The news tells about the latest vendor and cool use of technology, minute by minute. Vendors are filling our voicemail and email with enticements. It’s all so very cool!

But cool doesn’t build a business. Results do.

Which brings me to the biggest barrier companies have in adopting artificial intelligence. Companies are asking the wrong questions:

  • What is artificial intelligence (or insert: machine learning or cognitive computing)?
  • Where can I use artificial intelligence?
  • What tool can I buy?

These questions put artificial intelligence into the traditional analytic processes and technology adoption box. These questions assume you will begin from the same starting point as you did for big data. You are wrong: Artificial intelligence starts with the problem to solve and works backward.

To succeed at artificial intelligence you need to ask the right questions:

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7 years, 10 months ago

Semantic Technology Is Not Only For Data Geeks

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You can’t bring up semantics without someone inserting an apology for the geekiness of the discussion. If you’re a data person like me, geek away! But for everyone else, it’s a topic best left alone. Well, like every geek, the semantic geeks now have their day — and may just rule the data world.

It begins with a seemingly innocent set of questions:

“Is there a better way to master my data?”

“Is there a better way to understand the data I have?”

“Is there a better way to bring data and content together?”

“Is there a better way to personalize data and insight to be relevant?”

Semantics discussions today are born out of the data chaos that our traditional data management and governance capabilities are struggling under. They’re born out of the fact that even with the best big data technology and analytics being adopted, business stakeholder satisfaction with analytics has decreased by 21% from 2014 to 2015, according to Forrester’s Global Business Technographics® Data And Analytics Survey, 2015. Innovative data architects and vendors realize that semantics is the key to bringing context and meaning to our information so we can extract those much-needed business insights, at scale, and more importantly, personalized.

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7 years, 10 months ago

Semantic Technology Is Not Only For Data Geeks

by

You can’t bring up semantics without someone inserting an apology for the geekiness of the discussion. If you’re a data person like me, geek away! But for everyone else, it’s a topic best left alone. Well, like every geek, the semantic geeks now have their day — and may just rule the data world.

It begins with a seemingly innocent set of questions:

“Is there a better way to master my data?”

“Is there a better way to understand the data I have?”

“Is there a better way to bring data and content together?”

“Is there a better way to personalize data and insight to be relevant?”

Semantics discussions today are born out of the data chaos that our traditional data management and governance capabilities are struggling under. They’re born out of the fact that even with the best big data technology and analytics being adopted, business stakeholder satisfaction with analytics has decreased by 21% from 2014 to 2015, according to Forrester’s Global Business Technographics® Data And Analytics Survey, 2015. Innovative data architects and vendors realize that semantics is the key to bringing context and meaning to our information so we can extract those much-needed business insights, at scale, and more importantly, personalized.

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