Outsmarting AI: Power, Profit, and Leadership in the Age of Machines

From factories to smartphones, Artificial Intelligence is already taking over. Outsmarting AI is not a how-to guide on making AI work, but making it work for YOU to boost profits and productivity. Each development in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology brings about apprehension and panic for the future of society and for business. We're bombarded with stories about the impending human-less workplace; it is no longer a question if man can be replaced by machine in certain tasks, but when. However, AI was not manufactured to destroy life as we know it. These emerging technologies were developed and are constantly updating with a particular goal in mind: optimization. AI feeds on data and information to improve outputs and increase potential. With this enhanced productivity, profit and productivity will be sure to follow. Written by Brennan Pursell, a business consultant and professor who hates jargon, and Joshua Walker, an AI pioneer with 18 years of experience in solutions and applications, Outsmarting AI is the first plain-English how-to guide on adapting AI for the non-coding proficient business leader. This book will help readers to -Cut through the fog of AI hype -See exactly what AI can actually do for people in business -Identify the areas of their organization in most need of AI tools -Prepare and control their data - AI is useless without it -Adopt AI and develop the right culture to support it -Track the productivity boost, cost savings, and increased profits -Manage and minimize the threat of crippling lawsuits

Author: Brennan Pursell, Joshua Walker
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 08/15/2020
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781538136249


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2020 pg. 62
Choice 05/01/2021

About the Author
Brennan Pursell, MBA, PhD is Professor of Business and History at DeSales University and the founding director of the Applied AI Program. He teaches a wide range of courses in the undergraduate and MBA programs and provides consulting services to businesses large and small. Outsmarting AI is his fifth book. He lives with his family in the greater New York metropolitan area. Joshua Walker, considered a pioneer in the emerging field of law and computer science, is the co-founder of both CodeX (Stanford Center for Legal Informatics) and Lex Machina--one of the first practical legal AI companies, regularly used by many of the Fortune 500, law firms, and all three branches of the US government. He is also the author of "On Legal AI" and is seeking to help architect the next generation of AI tools for regular folks. He and his family are based in San Francisco, California.