AI Will Change The World...If Investors Catch Up

It's hard to believe that a mere 50 years ago we still relied on humans to manage telephone switchboards. What once required an army of people to operate at scale was quickly replaced by computers powered by microprocessors. Nowadays, most of us can't imagine a world where humans are required to make a telephone call. Data science is in the midst of a similar revolution. While the mathematical tools to make predictions from data have existed for centuries, and the algorithmic ones for several decades, all have required humans to manage the data inputs and interpret/iterate on the outputs.