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[email protected] Contents - 07 Introduction - 23 PART 1: AI Fundamentals - 45 PART 2: Discovering AI Opportunities - 75 PART 3: Building a Winning AI Strategy - 97 PART 4: Launching Your First AI Product - 117 Epilogue - 121 Appendices 6 – INTRODUCTION 6 – INTRODUCTION Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet– which there isn’t–the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople. — Clifford Stoll “The Internet? Bah!” Newsweek 1995 BECOME AN AI COMPANY IN 90 DAYS – 7 Introduction THE ERA OF INTELLIGENT COMPUTING Congratulations. You’re living through a once-in-a-generation technology shift—the era of artificial intelligence, or AI. Like previous fundamental shifts such as electricity, the computer, or the Internet, AI will change everything. Skeptical about such big claims? I don’t blame you. Over the past few decades we’ve been bombarded by an endless parade of new technologies promising to “disrupt” everything and solve all our problems. BECOME AN AI COMPANY IN 90 DAYS 8 – INTRODUCTION Most of these technologies never yield more than incremental benefits: > Object-oriented programming made software only slightly more reusable.