Spisak: AWS is tracking 500 to 600 internal enterprise AI use cases
Joe Spisak · a16z Podcast | AI, from 'Toy' Problems to Practical Application · Jan 2, 2019 · at 3:53
Joe Spisak of AWS discusses customer demand and internal sales requests for applied AI solutions.
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“I'm tracking something like five or 600 use cases internally that our sales folks are coming to us and saying, hey, I got this problem.”
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