The AI Revolution: Why You Need to Learn About Deep Learning

We're taking a break today from the election and corporate scandals to do something that most leaders–in fact, most people–generally, don't do often enough: Thinking great big thoughts about how technology will change our lives. Many CEOs tell me their greatest fear is being blindsided by a competitor they never even thought of as a competitor, threatening to make the CEO's business irrelevant by using technology and a business model the CEO hadn't imagined. It's a main challenge now -- simply imagining what might be possible as technology advances ever faster. That's why I urge you to read Roger Parloff's new cover story on deep learning, how it's changing our lives, and how, as he says, it "will soon transform corporate America," and business globally for that matter. This is the technology powering the hugely improved speech recognition in so many products, including the Google Home device introduced yesterday as the company's answer to Amazon's Echo.