Cognitive Search and the Intelligent Workplace: Learning Starts With the Basics

With all the hype around artificial intelligence (AI), cognitive search and intelligent intranets, it's hard to understand how to actually apply those new technologies to improve the workplace. But it may not be that difficult: If you get a few of the basics right, you can put an effective cognitive search system in place and set it up for ongoing growth. Machine learning (ML) is behind all this, and it is advancing incredibly quickly. Sometimes it's touted as almost magic, but in fact the underlying algorithms in machine learning have not really changed in a decade. The advances are the result of fast, cheap computing, the availability of huge sets of data, open-source software and models, and easier administration and development environments.