This book helps decision makers grasp the importance, and applicability to business, of the new t... more This book helps decision makers grasp the importance, and applicability to business, of the new technologies and extended connectivity of systems that underlie what is becoming known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution: technologies and systems such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, 3D printing, the internet of things, virtual and augmented reality, big data and mobile networks. The WEF, OECD and UN all agree that humanity is on the cusp of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. As intelligent systems become integrated into every aspect of our lives this revolution will induce cultural and societal change of a magnitude hitherto unforeseen. These technologies challenge the values, customer experience and business propositions that have been the mainstay of almost every business and organization in existence. By redefining and encapsulating new value structures with emerging intelligent technologies, new innovative models are being created, and brought to market. Understanding the potential and impact of these changes will be a fundamental leadership requirement over the coming years.
In this chapter, we shall introduce various kinds of neural network architectures, including the ... more In this chapter, we shall introduce various kinds of neural network architectures, including the infamous Convolutional network that showed how such networks when combined with the backpropagation algorithm for minimizing the errors was able to recognize handwritten characters, that was later used by the US postal service to recognize zip codes (post codes).
In this chapter we explore major cross-cutting themes that are pervading the 4th Industrial revol... more In this chapter we explore major cross-cutting themes that are pervading the 4th Industrial revolution. Observations in how the early genesis of the internet has given rise to a global phenomena of connected devices and things that have reach much further than the original web of content and services.
Many years ago we developed fingerprint recognition in the late 1970s that by the early 1990s had... more Many years ago we developed fingerprint recognition in the late 1970s that by the early 1990s had evolved into an integrated automated fingerprint identification system which later became part of the field of biometrics combining many types of identification. At the time machine driven finger print recognition was wonderful, but nobody was interested even if you “do not need keys anymore” but they could not see it.
If there is a chance to improve and upscale the quality and efficiency of systems and operations,... more If there is a chance to improve and upscale the quality and efficiency of systems and operations, why wouldn’t everyone take the opportunity? This is the scope of where we are planning to head, especially with the drive to implement more intelligent solutions for the infrastructures available in today’s society; this drive is being achieved through integrating artificial intelligence (A.I), which is the goal of allowing ‘computer systems to exhibit intelligence in some manner’.
The most important thing is you can’t talk about artificial intelligence without talking about in... more The most important thing is you can’t talk about artificial intelligence without talking about intelligence. One of the big mistakes people make is that they are making AI into specific things like deep learning or Arnold Schwarzenegger terminator movie, but the point is that any word tends to be used in lots of different ways when defining definitions.
I attended the International petroleum week conference in London in late January 2017. It’s the f... more I attended the International petroleum week conference in London in late January 2017. It’s the first international conference with oil companies where they have been taking climate change seriously. They had previously been paying lip service to it, but now almost as a kind of existential threat in realizing business-as-use is the one thing they wouldn’t face. The discussion is now “lower for longer” in terms of the oil price, and even the discussion of “lower forever”.
Technological advance through history predates the recent digital era and computers to previous c... more Technological advance through history predates the recent digital era and computers to previous centuries that saw radical change in political and social beliefs, as well as the spread of political power and material wealth through changing technological development in society.
This book helps decision makers grasp the importance, and applicability to business, of the new t... more This book helps decision makers grasp the importance, and applicability to business, of the new technologies and extended connectivity of systems that underlie what is becoming known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution: technologies and systems such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, 3D printing, the internet of things, virtual and augmented reality, big data and mobile networks. The WEF, OECD and UN all agree that humanity is on the cusp of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. As intelligent systems become integrated into every aspect of our lives this revolution will induce cultural and societal change of a magnitude hitherto unforeseen. These technologies challenge the values, customer experience and business propositions that have been the mainstay of almost every business and organization in existence. By redefining and encapsulating new value structures with emerging intelligent technologies, new innovative models are being created, and brought to market. Understanding the potential and impact of these changes will be a fundamental leadership requirement over the coming years.
In this chapter, we shall introduce various kinds of neural network architectures, including the ... more In this chapter, we shall introduce various kinds of neural network architectures, including the infamous Convolutional network that showed how such networks when combined with the backpropagation algorithm for minimizing the errors was able to recognize handwritten characters, that was later used by the US postal service to recognize zip codes (post codes).
In this chapter we explore major cross-cutting themes that are pervading the 4th Industrial revol... more In this chapter we explore major cross-cutting themes that are pervading the 4th Industrial revolution. Observations in how the early genesis of the internet has given rise to a global phenomena of connected devices and things that have reach much further than the original web of content and services.
Many years ago we developed fingerprint recognition in the late 1970s that by the early 1990s had... more Many years ago we developed fingerprint recognition in the late 1970s that by the early 1990s had evolved into an integrated automated fingerprint identification system which later became part of the field of biometrics combining many types of identification. At the time machine driven finger print recognition was wonderful, but nobody was interested even if you “do not need keys anymore” but they could not see it.
If there is a chance to improve and upscale the quality and efficiency of systems and operations,... more If there is a chance to improve and upscale the quality and efficiency of systems and operations, why wouldn’t everyone take the opportunity? This is the scope of where we are planning to head, especially with the drive to implement more intelligent solutions for the infrastructures available in today’s society; this drive is being achieved through integrating artificial intelligence (A.I), which is the goal of allowing ‘computer systems to exhibit intelligence in some manner’.
The most important thing is you can’t talk about artificial intelligence without talking about in... more The most important thing is you can’t talk about artificial intelligence without talking about intelligence. One of the big mistakes people make is that they are making AI into specific things like deep learning or Arnold Schwarzenegger terminator movie, but the point is that any word tends to be used in lots of different ways when defining definitions.
I attended the International petroleum week conference in London in late January 2017. It’s the f... more I attended the International petroleum week conference in London in late January 2017. It’s the first international conference with oil companies where they have been taking climate change seriously. They had previously been paying lip service to it, but now almost as a kind of existential threat in realizing business-as-use is the one thing they wouldn’t face. The discussion is now “lower for longer” in terms of the oil price, and even the discussion of “lower forever”.
Technological advance through history predates the recent digital era and computers to previous c... more Technological advance through history predates the recent digital era and computers to previous centuries that saw radical change in political and social beliefs, as well as the spread of political power and material wealth through changing technological development in society.
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