Sramana Mitra: There’s a clear trend of these more complex plumbing of the AI systems becoming available as platforms and then abstraction layers being created such that AI can become a lot more ubiquitous. Where would you start a new company today if you wanted to do something in AI? Josh Sutton: Where I would
Sramana Mitra: Very good. Very helpful interview. I’m finding it helpful to calibrate. I know all of these people but things are evolving. I know Michael who’s the CEO of Cycorp. Josh Sutton: Michael is the CEO of Lucid. Doug and Steven are the CEOs now. There are two other use case that are probably
Sramana Mitra: Do you hear similar efforts within the IBM organization to create a layer where people who are mere mortals can work with Watson as a platform? Josh Sutton: I firmly believe that that is where they’re headed. Full disclosure, I haven’t seen it to the same extent that I have seen with some
Sramana Mitra: Interesting. Would you like to do other use cases? Josh Sutton: Yes, so that was all around insight generation from a structured data point of view. Next I want to move to insight generation from unstructured data. This is an area that I think has massive opportunity. Most of the information that people
Sramana Mitra: As I’m talking to you, I’m making a note in my head to invite Mark in this series once you have finished getting to a point where this is all real. Josh Sutton: That was the first front around insight generation. Sramana Mitra: Could you actually throw some light on what kind of
Sramana Mitra: What I’d like to do is pick a few of your real-world clients who are using AI to do business transformation and start with what problem domain are we looking at, how are you applying AI to their problem domain, and what kind of business transformation are you achieving? Josh Sutton: Let me
There is a clear trend in Artificial Intelligence whereby major companies like IBM, Microsoft, and Google are creating the plumbing with layers of abstraction on top such that mere mortals can leverage capabilities such as Machine Learning to build complex systems. This interview offers an excellent overview of the state of the union on this