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Spisak: Business intelligence is on its last legs as analytics shifts
“I don't want to say BI is dead, but it's, you know, it's on its last leg. I think everyone wants to move to more predictions, actionable, prescriptive analytics, and you can't do that when you're just kind of looking at pretty pictures. So I think we're seeing…”
Spisak: Medical AI startups are illegitimate without clinical staff and hospital data
“If it's a medical imaging startup, if you don't have a hospital you're working with to provide you data, if you don't have doctors, if you don't have clinicians that you're working with or have on staff, frankly, I don't see a whole lot of legitimacy to what y…”
Spisak: AWS is tracking 500 to 600 internal enterprise AI use cases
“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.”
Spisak: Most public machine learning code examples are merely toy problems
“There's this explosion of tutorials and code that's out there, but these largely are all toy examples.”
Spisak: Domain transfer from simulation for autonomous driving remains unsolved
“When you talk about having RRL applied in say like autonomous driving, having a car drive around and learn how to drive, you know, by crashing a million times isn't tractable as a, you know, as an algorithm. So it's, you know, being able to do all that simulat…”
Spisak: AWS image recognition service lacks support for custom enterprise data
“Because even today, you know, just being the self-deprecating Amazon guy, we have services that aren't, they're not very flexible. Like our image recognition service is really cool, and it does a lot of great things, but I can't actually bring my own data to i…”