12. Tips
• You are yourself, don’t ‘play’ a role.
• Discuss in small teams (up to 4 people works beautifully).
• Don’t rush through the screens, take your time to explore, share and
discuss.
• Don’t get stuck either, keep moving, your insights will gradually build
over the cases.
Notas do Editor
AI isn’t new.
In fact, when I was at university (and I have grey hair now) we talked about Decision Support Systems and Executive Information Systems.
Before that we had tons of books and movies about the ‘man against the machine’. Asimov’s robot laws, Terminator, HAL …
AI as a scientific field has gone through springs and winters, and there seemed to be more progress in movies and fiction than real life...
Around 2010 a perfect storm woke up AI from its winter: big data, computing power in the cloud gave rise to ‘machine learning’ where machines are fed data and ‘learn’ trough brutal mathematics to be good at one specific task.
We sees a lot of investment in technological companies leveraging AI: Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM…
Some of these companies make AI technology available as a cloud service, eg IBM Watson.
We read in the newspaper and see on TV how AI wins Jeopardy and the most difficult game out there – go.
AI can do language now – we have Siri or Alexa in our living rooms as a sign of how AI starts to infiltrate/augment our lives.