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AI is simultaneously over-hyped and a game-changer. To paraphrase a famous Marketing quip, the problem is that you need to be a domain expert as well as an ML expert in order to judge which are the over-hyped parts.

As a consultant specializing in building Data Science teams, I've been shouting this idea that you can only build AI products on top of a robust data pipeline and, more importantly, culture, from the roof-tops for years. Monica Rogati's formulization of it, the "AI hierarchy of needs"[0] helps a lot to instill a mental image in managers.

[0] https://hackernoon.com/the-ai-hierarchy-of-needs-18f111fcc00...