Avi Goldfarb, co-author of the Prediction Machine, placed the public’s view of AI into two extremes:
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Terminator – Pessimistic, foretelling the extinction of humanity
AI is a Tool to do a particular task in a workflow.
Goldfarb shared what computers did to reduce the cost of simple arithmetic. As the const of semi-conductors fell so did the demand for computers rise. He noted that when there is a price reduction, demand goes up.
The same is true with Artificial Intelligence.
The car crash scene from the movie I Robot, starring Wil Smith, offers insight into what Artificial Intelligence is helping organizations do, and how you can use it in your business.
AI is a tool. A tool to predict. As you can see by the definition of prediction. It’s using information you do have to generate information you don’t have.
Decision-Making relies on judgement. Judgment is the process of determining what the reward is to a particular action in a particular environment,.
What we can do and will do with AI is growing. Goldfarb indicated we are only 6 years into the emergence of AI.
Goldfarb shared an AI canvas for helping you determine where AI can help you with prediction in your business.
One example: In 2000 at the height of its US Cash Equities trading desk, Goldman Sachs NY headquarters employed 600 traders buying and selling stock on orders from investment bank’s large customers. Today, due to AI, Sachs has just two equity traders left.
Wouldn’t it be nice to see these kind of rewards in your business? You can when you search for where you make predictions in your processes.
Goldfarb didn’t see AI negatively impacting employment dramatically. What he’s seen, is, company’s removing people in the predicting aspect of their business, then placing them in decision-making roles. There, their human capabilities are utilized to make better decisions.
Amazon’s Predictive Use of AI
Amazon is already planning to send products to customers before they know they need or want it through AI.
Right now when you go to Amazon, it makes suggestions on what you should buy once you put in your search item. Currently the success rate is 1/20. When you compare this to exactly what Sears was doing 20 years ago with a catalog, it’s the same outcome. As predictions get better, Amazon will start sending you what you want before you know you wanted it.
AI’s Importance
As proof of AI’s growth and importance, Goldfarb shared where someone sits frequently identifies importance in an organization. People who sit next to the boss are considered more important. At Google’s AI researchers all have desks closest to the boss.
Daniel Kahneman, Author of Thinking Fast & Slow and a Nobel prize winner for behavioral economics, predicts, “I do not think that there is very much that we can do that computers will not eventually [learn] to do.”
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Each of the Four Decisions Produces a specific outcome. In our coaching process, we repeat examples and the definitions of the Four Decisions frequently to make sure our customers remember the value and result each decision produces for your business.
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