2020 - An AI Autumn....
"If we want to scale to more complex behaviour, we need to do better with less data, and we need to generalise more."(*1) During the 2015-2019 period, it was all about "AI is going to change the world", "AI is awesome, look at the amazing things it can do", "jump on the AI band-wagon".....etc...etc...etc... I worked on many a project during this time period and I often found myself sitting back (the ability to do that was a rare occasion, I can tell you) and asking, "Where is the AI in this solution?". Everyone else, the project stakeholders, executives, Data Scientists ( I still have beef with that job title, but I'll leave that for another day ) were all strutting around dropping the "AI" word and I just couldn't see it. Yes, we had a few isolated "smart" bits, but they were just algorithms triggered by good old fashioned code on certain events that made life a bit easier / quicker for the end user -...