In my previous article, I have written about a content-based recommendation engine using TF-IDF for Goodreads data. In this article, I am using the same Goodreads data and build the recommendation engine using word2vec. Like the previous article, I am going to use the same book description to recommend books. The algorithm that we use always struggles to handle raw text data and it only understands the data in numeric form. In order to make it understand, we need to convert the raw text into numeric form.

Our last book list of 2018 focused on the leadership skills that IT and business executives would need to guide their organizations into the future of technology. In this list, we focus on what that future may entail. Whether you are more interested in the here and now – like how to make agile and DevOps work – or emerging technology predictions for humanity and business in the age of AI, algorithms, and robots, there's a book on this list for you. Book description (via Amazon): "How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances? "Architects of Intelligence" contains a series of in-depth, one-to-one interviews where New York Times bestselling author, Martin Ford, uncovers the truth behind these questions from some of the brightest minds in the Artificial Intelligence community."

If you are still taking a "wait and see" approach to artificial intelligence, you may already be falling behind your peers in IT. Although just 15 percent of enterprises are using AI, 31 percent said that it was on the agenda for the next 12 months, according to Adobe's February 2018 "Digital Trends" report. That number will only go up as machine learning and AI technology continues to change how we work, live, and think. Along these lines, Mary Meeker's 2018 Internet trends report cited AI as a hot growth area for IT spending. There is plenty of hype-filled speculation about what the future of AI will look like.