Cathy O'Neil Quotes

There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

Increasingly, our decisions will be made by the algorithms that surround us. Whenever there is a big dilemma, you just ask Google what to do. And what kind of life is that?

You need to use data science and machine learning to get the ground truth of what's happening inside of a company.

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

Big data is mostly about taking numbers and using those numbers to make predictions about the future. The bigger the data set you have, the more accurate the predictions about the future will be.

Every part of your business will change based on what I consider predictive analytics of the future.

It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.

Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

When you apply computer science and machine learning to areas that haven't had any innovation in 50 years, you can make rapid advances that seem really incredible.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.

Data helps solve problems.

So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.

Today, there are industries employing hundreds of thousands of engineers creating artificial intelligence.

Artifical Intellegence is the most important of the coming technologies. Whoever can crack that will have a company worth 10 Microsofts.

If you have a lot of data and you want to create value from that data, one of the things you might consider is building up an AI team.

Whatever you are studying right now, if you are not getting up to speed on deep learning, neural networks, etc., you lose. We are going through the process where software will automate software, automation will automate automation.

There's a very long tail of all sorts of creative products - beyond our core web search, image search and advertising businesses - that are powered by deep learning.

As machines take over the decision-making that saves lives, we are left with fewer chances to save lives later.

Machine learning is the most popular course for people from India. There is a window of time when India can embrace and capture a large fraction of the AI opportunity. But it will not remain open for ever.

The whole concept of data science is that the software becomes the expert, and you, as the average user, are able to understand what's going on.

We are going to completely change what it means to do advanced analytics with our data solutions. We have machine-learning stuff that is about really bringing advanced analytics and statistical machine learning into data-science departments everywhere.