AI & DATA ANALYTICS
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AI for AI ’ s sake is a real and ever present danger , with the proliferation of AI solutions meaning some are inevitably akin to snake oil . Even when objectives are clear , there can be a long and winding road to deployment thanks to factors such as difficulty scaling , machine learning technology evolving while a project is underway and difficulties assigning correct budgets thanks to different levels of understanding across company hierarchies .
While open-source machine-learning systems are available , they require both significant hardware and the right kind of data science expertise ( made harder by the fact the world is experiencing a deficit in people with such skills ).
Enter the cloud , one possible solution to this quandary , allowing businesses to leverage the necessary hardware without the capital expenditure and affording them stable platforms with which to work . Companies can now look forward to the benefits from machine learning without having to themselves becomes technology specialists .
JULY 2020