The Disrupters: The New York Times’ Steve Lohr on the future of big data and artificial intelligence

How is data science changing the way organizations operate and humans make decisions? On Tuesday at AEI, New York Times Technology Correspondent Steve Lohr and AEI’s James K. Glassman discussed the future of big data and artificial intelligence in an installment of the “Disrupters” discussion series.

Mr. Lohr and Mr. Glassman touched on big-data topics as diverse as disease tracking and prediction, credit-market discrimination, and open-source policy tools. In one memorable exchange, Mr. Glassman argued that the big-data revolution has a generation’s best minds in Silicon Valley, trying to get people to click on ads. Mr. Lohr responded that Silicon Valley has been a great incubator for data-science tools that have huge potential for real-world problems.

Mr. Lohr also emphasized the need for human intelligence in a data-driven world and suggested that while job automation will cause fewer jobs to be lost than most assume, millions of managers will need to be increasingly data literate.

The panelists’ discussion highlighted that we are on the cusp of a transformative economic change as data science is beginning to move from Silicon Valley to mainstream industries.–Patrick Corry

Πηγή: American Enterprise Institute