Realizing the full potential of AI and Data Science: Are we there yet?
In a podcast with BBC, Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet (parent company of Google) said that he views Artificial Intelligence as the most profound technology that human beings will ever work on, more important than even electricity and internet. Experts from across the board are of the opinion that we have barely scratched the surface, when it comes to the influence of AI in our lives. Often described as one of the most desirable jobs in the technology space, the role of a Data Scientist has continued to evolve. Fifteen years ago, the term ‘Data Scientist’ wasn’t part of common tech lexicon. In the ensuing years, from Data Mining to Business Intelligence to Data Science to AI, organizations have continued to find new ways of using the huge volume of business data at their disposal. From predicting weather to crop and soil monitoring in agriculture to automatic algorithmic reading of your MRI or X-ray, the breakneck pace at which AI is finding new usages begs the question: at what stage are we in this journey of human intelligence creating artificial intelligence?