Why You Should Care about Machine Learning And Artificial Intelligence Lighting Talk at Business of Software Conference Europe 2015 Richard Edwards IBM Watson

1. WhyYou Should
Care About
Machine Learning and
Artificial Intelligence
Rich Edwards
IBM Watson
@RichEdwards

3. The means of production

8. New Technology
Incremental
&
Sustaining
Disruptive
&
Previously
Impossible

9. 0%
25%
50%
75%
100%
1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015e 2017e
No Smart Phone
No Internet
Source: a16z, Benedict Evans
Global Adult Population

10. >$20,000/year
(75-100 million people)
$1,500-$20,000/year
(1.5 - 1.7 billion people)
<$1,500/year
(4 billion people)
Source:The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, C.K. Prahalad, 2005

14. Thank you
Rich Edwards
IBM Watson
@RichEdwards