Marc Warner on AI's fundamental shift: Supplemental thinking

Subscribe to the O'Reilly Radar Podcast to track the technologies and people that will shape our world in the years to come. In this episode, I chat with Marc Warner, CEO of ASI, a data science and business analytics consultancy and training organization in London. We talk about artificial intelligence, speculating about the future and looking at current real-world business applications of AI. We also talk about a survey Warner recently conducted with data science companies in London, where he uncovered a data scientist skills cap. We see a really interesting cross section of what people are actually doing with machine learning and artificial intelligence right now. Conventionally, software's been used for decades in the form of expert systems where humans would code in explicit sets of rules, and nowadays you just don't need to provide those rules; the machine learning algorithms can pick out the understanding themselves from the data, and it's actually much, much more effective.