‘Can You Afford To Ignore The Artificial Intelligence Wave?’ – ‘The Forrester Blog’
The latest article on ‘The Forrester Blog’ is titled “Can You Afford To Ignore The Artificial Intelligence Wave?”.
Michele Goetz says, “Recent news of a a computer program that passed the Turing Test is a great achievement for artificial intelligence (AI). Pulling down the barrier between human and machine has been a decades long holy grail pursuit. Right now, it is a novelty. In the near future, the implications are immense.
Which brings us to why should you care.
Earlier this week the House majority leader, Eric Cantor, suffered an enormous defeat in Virginia’s Republican primary by Tea Party candidate David Brat. No one predicted this – the polls were wrong, by a long shot. Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster and communication advisor, offered up his opinion on what was missing in a New York Times Op-Ed piece – lack of face-to-face discussions and interviews with voters. He asserts that while data collection was limited to discrete survey questions, what it lacked was context. Information such as voter mood, perceptions, motives, and overall mind set were missing. Even if you collected quantitative data across a variety of sources, you don’t get to these prescient indicators”.
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