Demand for AI "Surging"

[TheDude]

I worked with Genetic Algorithms at university to optimise pursuit and evasion strategies.

Really interesting but GAs are old hat now. Maybe I should stick it my CV anyway.

[Hairlocks]

I think its true the lack of demand right now is that businesses still have a long way to go to even understand what AI is and what it might be able to do for them, particularly how it might help them make money.

I think you are right with this. Businesses don't even know that they don't know yet. Plus they don't know how it will make them money, although I am not sure that has stopped them in the past, may the economic climate has put a damper on it.

[edison]

I think its true the lack of demand right now is that businesses still have a long way to go to even understand what AI is and what it might be able to do for them, particularly how it might help them make money.

Exactly this.

A lot of organisations, especially small to medium size ones, are still quite immature with using technology. Many of them struggle with getting the most value from key business applications never mind 'digital transformation' or heaven forbid, anything AI related.

A client I worked with is a good illustration. Fast growing with £150m turnover and investing quite a bit in standardising core infrastructure and applications across several divisions. The board asked what they should be doing with AI and the CIO recommended doing some small proof of concepts rather than just dive straight in. The board actually ended up canning several key infrastructure and application projects (stupidly) and still don't really have much idea when it comes to IT despite the CIO's best efforts. So anything AI is still some way off.

[willendure]

I remember around 2004ish chatting a colleague who was of the opinion that all the really good business ideas for the internet had already been thought of - lastminute.com, google search/adverstising etc. I certainly couldn't think of any good ones at the time. Since then we had facebook, airbnb, spotify, the iphone, and so on. My point is, it really isn't obvious where the succesful ideas are going to come from, and even then the success of an idea is much more down to the execution of it than the idea itself, and there are at least 10 failures for every success and so on.

[rocktronAMP]

https://www.udemy.com/course/the-dat...ence-bootcamp/

Enjoy...

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Is it any good?

[dx4100]

What do you think of this course?
Is it any good?

Yes its very good

[dsc]

Yes its very good

Do you need to know Python to go through it, or is any generic programming exp enough?

[rocktronAMP]

Yes its very good

Thanks I purchased the entire for £12.99 yesterday.

If you are not a developer or computer programmer, then skip the next part (see what I did there?)



Yes there is Python to learn for me. I think though it will be a doodle, because I hknow C, remember C++, I really know Java, and I develop a couple of years in Scala and dabbled about with Kotlin. Plus Python is a scripting language like BASH, Shell or even Perl. It far easier for lecturers to teach their students to get to programming without the boilerplate ceremony of Java. The hard part will be learning all about the common conventions of Python and the equivalent standard programming libraries and those are Python's Pandas (JSON/HTTP/REST) and the Database Connection (equivalent to JDBC Java Database Connectivity in olde speak).

Any one here, remember BBC BASIC?

10 FOR N = 1 TO 10
20 PRINT "N = ", N
30 NEXT
40 PRINT "DONE"

LOL

[jamesbrown]

Looks not unlike Fortran

[Fraidycat]

Looks not unlike Fortran

Thats because Fortran was released around 1958 and Basic was released a few years later in 1963.

Google says: Basic was originally designed as an interactive mainframe timesharing language by John Kemeney and Thomas Kurtz in 1963.

The funniest programming language was on the Amiga back in the day: