Is Your Business Intelligence Thinking Three Moves Ahead? Article # 1
Does it even know how?
Tonight Corsair’s Analytics will be at the DC Start-up & Tech Expo. We hope to meet a lot of great folks with great ideas and pitch a few of our own. We also plan to play a game, a test if you prefer. We are going to be giving away up to a $100 Amazon gift card, but there is a catch. To win it, you need to think three moves ahead.
It is as simple as forecasting a game of checkers. With only 24 pieces and 64 positions, Checkers is a very simple thing to predict. Or at least it should be…
I won’t guess on the outcome. We will post another article (link here), letting everyone know what happened. Also announcing who, if anyone, won. It is a simple game.
So now back to my question, do your business intelligence systems think three moves ahead? Business is more complex than checkers, most of it anyway. There are certainly more permutations, iterations, and complexity. Are you even trying?
In the 1950’s, Arthur Samuel taught a computer how to learn to think three moves ahead. It wasn’t the best deep learning model ever built. It was probably the first. And it won, quite a bit. Why, because machines are better at that sort of thing than most humans. Humans with machines (the essence of the newly popular Deep Learning) are a good bit better than either individually.
So again — does your business intelligence think three steps ahead? Why wouldn’t you want that advantage? Guaranteed, at least one of your competitors is moving on this. Do you want to cede the advantage?
Perhaps you think you can’t afford it. If that is the case and you find yourself in the DC/Arlington Area tonight — stop by our booth. Admission is free. If you can’t, stay tuned to this new series. Tomorrow we will publish the results. After that, we will explore just how affordable and high impact these sorts of solutions can be.
