Fixing the Last Mile Problems of Deploying AI Systems in the Real World

Jess, my wife, and I went shopping at Eaton Center in downtown Toronto recently. Jess was in a very good mood because she just came back from a Hackathon (a 3-day ideation and prototyping competition) her company organized. Jess is a Financial Advisor at a bank in Toronto. She was describing how fantastic (and unreal) all the Artificial Intelligence (AI) ideas and prototypes were as we stopped at a vendor booth to update my phone plan. A lady, named Joanne and probably in her early 20s, welcomed us and suggested a few good options; I signed up for one of her suggestions.