What Absolutdata Has Learned About Making Analytics and AI Successful

You've probably received the advice at some point in your life that "context is everything." While it's probably wise to avoid relying too heavily on clichés to guide your life, when it comes to using AI successfully, context does in fact matter a lot. Enterprises often seem to operate between two bipolar views of AI. On the one side, there's the optimistic idea that you can just plug in an AI platform and it will immediately start spitting out predictions to radically reshape the business. On the other, is a more fearful, pessimistic view of AI's potential, in which the black box of AI algorithms means that we should be skeptical because we can't understand how the technology arrived at its predictions.