SONAL SHAH: It's also about how do we make data more useful for people to use and to solve problems in their communities? TANYA OTT: Okay, that is a big job. Who is this superhuman who fills it? TANYA OTT: We'll tell you, in a moment. But first, let me say, you're listening to the Press Room, where we talk about some of the biggest issues facing businesses today. I'm Tanya Ott and joining me today are Bill Eggers … I am the executive director and a professor of practice at Georgetown University's Beeck Center. TANYA OTT: Bill and Sonal are coauthors of The CDO Playbook – a guide for Chief Data Officers. For the last decade, government has been focused on making data more open and easily [accessible] to the public.

TANYA OTT: I'm Tanya Ott and this is the Press Room, where we talk about the issues that are or should be important to your business. In October, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced it's going to spend $1 billion dollars--that's with a big capital B--to create a new college focused on Artificial Intelligence.1 That is a huge investment. MIT says it's already raised two-thirds of the money and plans to start classes next fall. In announcing the school, MIT's president said he wants to "educate the bilinguals of the future."

TANYA OTT: The future of artificial intelligence: what we know, what we don't know, and what it all means for you. I'm Tanya Ott, and this is the Press Room, Deloitte University Press's podcast on the issues and ideas that matter to your business today. When you think of artificial intelligence, you probably don't think of this: [sound of hiking through the woods]. It's the South, so it's hot--but the tree cover is helping a bit. This park is part of Red Mountain, here in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians. The trail is dotted with the remnants of 19th-century iron-ore mines. Back in the 1980s, you could walk into any outdoor store and find these big paper green and pink topographical maps. The US Geological Survey, which is part of the Department of Interior, made them. Hikers and hunters and other outdoor enthusiasts used these topo maps to make sure they didn't get lost in the wilderness. But by the 1990s, GPS and other similar technologies started getting broader adoption, and all of a sudden those maps, which had been painstakingly drawn by hand, started being produced on computers using a digital process. Suddenly, lots of cartographers were out of work.