Adopting AI in the Enterprise: Ford Motor Company

Check out the Strata Business Summit at the Strata Data Conference in New York City, Sept. 25-28, 2017, to learn more from data-driven businesses--including American Express, BBC Worldwide, and LinkedIn. Early price ends August 11. Driverless cars aren't the only application for deep learning on the road: neural networks have begun to make their way into every corner of the automotive industry, from supply-chain management to engine controllers. In this installment of our ongoing series on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the enterprise, we speak with Dimitar Filev, executive technical leader at Ford Research & Advanced Engineering, who leads the team focused on control methods and computational intelligence. Ford research lab has been conducting systematic research on computational intelligence--one of the branches of AI--for more than 20 years.