Ten ways to get up to date in the world of AI — from a business perspective
There are many ways to get information from the world of AI. However most sites have a technical perspective. They are great if you are a student or a developer. But not so much if you are interested in getting to know how AI can change the way you run your business.
This article aims to let you know ten different approaches you can use to get more in-depth into the AI universe, from a business perspective.
Some persons prefer podcasts, some discussing forums or perhaps more academic sources. We will run through the alternatives in this article so that you can choose your best matches.
TED — Video guides
One of the best ways to get broad learning on how AI works is to follow TED talks. The talks are between 10 to 15 minutes each, and you will get new perspectives regardless of your AI background. So it is highly recommended to visit ted.com. They have dedicated playlists on AI, like this one:
https://www.ted.com/playlists/642/what_happens_when_the_robots_take_our_jobs
YouTube — The Best AI Business channel
Many YouTube channels cover AI. However, most of them focus on how to learn to program AI. The most useful business-oriented AI YouTube Channel must be “The Artifical Channel” from the AI Institute. The Channel can be found on this link:
https://www.youtube.com/user/Maaaarth/videos
YouTube — Best general AI Channel
The most popular YouTube channel with a broad perspective on how how to use AI is the channel that is hosted by Siraj Raval. He has about 700 thousand channel subscribes and posts new content frequently:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWN3xxRkmTPmbKwht9FuE5A
AI business site
There are a few dedicated AI business sites. One that does stand out is CogniFirm.com (Cognify your Firm). It is dedicated to AI articles that all have a business perspective on how to get the most our of AI. They even has a Strategic AI Framework on how a business can the most out of AI. The link is:
AI Podcasts
An excellent way of getting up to date with the AI universe is to listen to podcasts. The two hosts, Niel and Kathrine on the Talking Machines, are fabulous at finding discussion issues on different AI matters. You can find the Podcast on this link:
http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/episodes
Academic studies
The most acknowledged source of educational knowledge from the AI world is from MIT. They have an outstanding AI section on their website that is highly recommendable. You can find it here:
https://www.technologyreview.com/artificial-intelligence/
Medium.com
Medium.com is a professional blogging website, and they have a designated section on AI too. What makes Medium.com stand out is that they group the content from all the sites blogs into relevant sub blogs. This means that you can get the best (most successful) AI blog posts in one aggregated bloglist. The best AI Medium channel for AI articles is this one:
https://medium.com/topic/artificial-intelligence
Reddit is another source of up to date information on AI in a more informal way. Reddit is a debate forum, so it will give you views on what is on many peoples minds when it comes to AI. This makes the site useful to browse around to get to know what the issues and interests are of the people who are involved in AI. You can find Reddit discussion forum on the URL:
https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/
Quora.com
Quora is built on a question and answer perspective. That means that you will most likely be able to find the response to a specific question you might have when it comes to AI. The downside of this principle is that anyone can answer any issues. So you might risk that the answer that you get is not as precise as it could be. Nevertheless, the number of people who will answer your questions are so great that you will get various views on most of the issues that you post on the forums.
The link to Qura is:
https://www.quora.com/search?q=ai
AI Start-up website
There are lots of things going on in the AI start-up world, and an outstanding way of keeping up to date is to check out the definedcrowd.com site. This site keeps track of issues like who gets funded and how much does the Startups collect in the different financing rounds:
