Things to know before you join the AI bandwagon

DG Digest - Feb 2022

I would like to share some thoughts on developing a framework for Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption, insights on funding AI programmes in the enterprises and Govt agencies and experiences in enabling a Water Utility in their AI adoption journey. Also, I answered the innocuous “What is Machine learning dad?” from my (then) 8 y.o ??

Happy learning!

Framework for an AI strategy

Organisations across the board are embarking on an ambitious AI adoption journey. But where do they start? What should the organisations consider before / in early stages of adoption? What are the pit falls? How to develop a sustainable strategy? In this article, I have tried to explore some of these topics. This approach is based on personal experiences and research working with some customers in this space. Please do share your views and enrich it!

How to fund AI initiatives?

There is a well-defined mechanism (RoI calculators and such) to work out funding large tech initiatives like multi-year, multi-geo ERP programs etc. but does that work for AI? Is there a better way? If you are a business leader, business finance person or a CFO, or have funded AI initiatives, please share your experience / learnings in the comments section.

AI in Water: Aspects that water utilities need to consider before adopting AI

Water utilities are looking to deploy AI on the trifecta of enterprise, operational and remote sensing data to transform into a truly innovative digital utility, that is adaptive, predictive and always on. But the Water utilities need to consider three aspects before they take the leap of faith and jump into adopting AI.

Explaining Machine learning to my 8 year old

Working from home with a curious kid at home involves answering lots of questions which sometimes we never think of / take for granted. This article captures my attempt at answering the innocuous “What is machine learning dad?” – Answering this question helped me understand and appreciate the work that goes behind some of the simple AI driven solutions like chatbots that we take for granted at workplace.

Interesting twitter handles for those interested in AI:

• @AndrewYNg - Co-Founder of Coursera; Stanford CS adjunct faculty. Former head of Baidu AI Group/Google Brain
• @MFordFuture - Futurist & NY Times bestselling author of #RiseoftheRobots.
• @soumithchintala - Co-creator and lead of @PyTorch at Meta A.I.
• @fchollet - Deep learning @google. Creator of Keras. Author of 'Deep Learning with Python'
• @ylecun - Professor at NYU. Chief AI Scientist at Meta. Researcher in AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, etc. ACM Turing Award Laureate

Interesting Podcasts:

This one AI in Education is my favourite - Its done by Dan Bowen and Lee Hickin from Microsoft Australia - Ray Fleming currently with Google used to run this with Dan.