Data quality and critical thinking are imperative for the advance of artificial intelligence (AI), according to expert views from an event hosted by US-based Teradata. At day three (24 October) of the Teradata Partners Conference 2017 (22-26 October), in Anaheim, California, Banking Technology was there to gauge the zeitgeist in our data-drenched world. As a quick review, on Monday (23 October), the company set out its plans in a super-slick presentation; unveiled Teradata Analytics Platform; revealed Danske Bank has launched its AI driven fraud detection platform; and showed off Agile Analytics Factory. The Era of Human-Machine Collaboration", Stephen Brobst and Yasmeen Ahmad from Teradata; Nadeem Gulzar, Danske Bank; and Andrew Stephen, Said Business School – University of Oxford; discussed a lot more than just coding. Stephen says data quality and critical thinking "should be a given but it's not happening".