Re:McKinsey report: State of AI in 2017 [pdf]
by denzil_correa on Sunday July 16, 2017 @03:01PM
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> McKinsey does have a pretty good understanding of where enterprises are investing time and money for strategic initiatives.
Isn't this just looking at investments in different areas and compiling a table?
Well, yes. It's just pulling data together from a bunch of different sources and interpreting it, talking to people, putting together case studies, presenting it in a fairly concise format, etc. Certainly other firms are capable of doing something similar but it's not as if this sort of information is readily available from a single source to just turn into a table.
Re:McKinsey report: State of AI in 2017 [pdf]
by denzil_correa on Sunday July 16, 2017 @05:04PM
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What exactly are the interpretations beyond the obvious here?
For researcher and practitioners in the field? Probably not a lot. Although researchers may not have a lot of understanding about how the tech is actually being used. For the execs who are McKinsey clients or potential clients, it's probably a useful overview.
As far as expertise, I suppose it depends on what you mean. Active AI practitioners. Probably not except to the degree that they pay outside experts for input. But they certainly have people who follow technology fields closely and have technology background. e.g. one of the authors of this report is a CS PhD, former CIO, and I've seen him speak at CIO conferences on a couple of occasions.