Sramana Mitra: What you want are people who know how to set up machine learning algorithms and how to diagnose the patterns and set them up with the heuristics so you can leverage the algorithms to come up with meaningful actionable insights. That knowledge doesn’t necessarily exist in the minds of the greatest domain experts.
Sramana Mitra: Do you want to take a different example from a different vertical perhaps and illustrate more of your point of view? Angela Zutavern: We can talk about healthcare. We partnered with the National Institute of Health on reading MRI scans for heart health. Trained cardiologists had to spend 20 to 30 minutes looking
Sramana Mitra: Can you parse that out? What are the tasks that machines do better and what are the tasks that humans do better in that context? Josh Sullivan: They were having people look over their existing loyalty club members and trying to figure out how to upsell or get them to use their points
Josh and Angela have written a book called The Mathematical Corporation, based on their exposure to various customer use cases of Machine Intelligence at Booz Allen. They discuss a few here. Sramana Mitra: You can decide who goes first. Please introduce yourselves as well as frame this conversation in the context of Booz Allen as