Deep learning, AI & the Blackbox – ITNEXT

Last week I gave a presentation around Artificial Intelligence to Product people: PO's, PMO's and others. I recalled how my geek day is using Alexa, Slack bots, x.ai, Smart Lighting & how happy I am of in living in such an era. Many of the smart, cognitive and automation things that we see are simple workflows, and they do not have AI, per se, on it (a discussion for another post). In a great conversation I tried to pass my message along, elucidate some concepts and show that Machine Learning algorithms can be used in lots of products -- so, you can have AI in the backend of your app, software, API, website, … Speech recognition, recommendation systems, image tagging, NLP, search optimisation, clustering and many others features that your product can react to it, providing a personalised experience. Telling the history of AI, the overselling of the 50's and 60's, the AI Winter and the recent boom I try to make everyone cautious about overselling its capabilities.