AI and the data production landscape

It's never easy to predict the future, and the speakers of Data Science Salon New York have somewhat divergent views on how we might expect ML and AI to be applied to the field of Media and Entertainment in the next five to ten years. But there's one clear area of agreement: "We're going to continue to see the implementation (and improvement) of personalized recommendation algorithms that are based on person-level data." said Lauren Lombardo, Senior Data Scientist at Nielsen. "It will vastly improve the overall relevance of the content and advertisements served across premium video, and make content exploration much simpler and more enjoyable," suggests Chris Whitely, Senior Director, Applied Analytics at Comcast. But the recommendation engines of tomorrow will be even more robust. "We've barely scratched the surface of utilizing recommendation engines for generating new content," said Josh Miller, Director of Data Analytics at Samba.tv.