The AI-First Company: How to Compete and Win with Artificial Intelligence

There are some promising transfer and semisupervised learning techniques that may provide alternatives to gathering a great deal of labeled data,

AI-First companies put capital, time, and effort behind getting data, ahead of other strategic priorities.

Get the AI-First product in the hands of customers without embarking on a yearlong data-lake project by manually pulling only the necessary data. This may be somewhat costly on a per-project basis but better than never finishing the project at all.

capture the data “exhaust” (anything recorded when customers perform operations in an application, such as clicking buttons and changing values) from existing systems of record (the “single source of truth” for a business function), and build AI on top.

Indeed, we’re still in the era of building such workflow apps for many industries—a huge opportunity for software developers willing to learn how specific industries get things done.

This table summarizes who to hire and when to hire them. role background cost outsourceable? hiring sequence Data analyst Business Low Yes First Data scientist Statistics Low Partially Second Data engineer Databases Medium Yes Third Machine learning engineer Computer science Medium No Fourth Data product manager Product management Medium No Fifth D

appropriate customers from incumbent suppliers by selling a specialized product to a niche segment of customers at a fraction of the cost of the incumbent’s product.

AI-First companies are first movers.

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