AutoAI wins AIconics Intelligent Automation Award: Meet a key inventor

AutoAI, a powerful, automated AI development capability in IBM Watson Studio, won the Best Innovation in Intelligent Automation Award yesterday at the AIconics AI Summit in San Francisco. Chosen by a panel of 13 independent judges, the AIconics awards recognize breakthroughs in AI for business. To share what went behind the development of AutoAI and how it accelerates time to value with data science projects, I interviewed one of our principal inventors: Jean-Francois Puget, PhD, a distinguished engineer for machine learning and optimization at IBM and a two-time Kaggle Grandmaster. What challenge led you to start developing AutoAI? Jean-Francois Puget: As data scientists, our work is a mix of applying general-purpose recipes and creating domain-specific insights.