Gupta: Enterprise AI advantage stems from human feedback loops, not algorithms
Arnab Gupta · Arnab Gupta, Opera Solutions // Data Driven NYC #17 // June 2013 · Dec 5, 2013 · at 22:11
Arnab Gupta, CEO of Opera Solutions, answers an audience question on whether analytics software provides enterprise clients with defensible moats.
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“And the real, what we found is that the differentiation comes from old-fashioned, the ability of their people to use it. It's in the feedback loop, which is truly proprietary to them. And as the algorithms improve, based on the, that's where the competitive transition comes from.”
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