The Data Chief | Episode 100

Three Must-Read 2024 AI and Analytics Books with Jeremy Kahn, Sol Rashidi, and Bernard Marr

Jeremy Kahn

Award-Winning Journalist

Sol Rashidi

10 Patents, Best-Selling Author, Former CDO, CAO, CDAO, and Amazon Tech Executive

Bernard Marr

Futurist, Journalist and Best-Selling Author

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Episode Overview

In this special episode, Cindi speaks with three of the industry’s top authors, thinkers, and leaders about their latest books on AI, data and analytics. Journalist, Jeremy Kahn, takes a broad societal view on the impact of AI, followed by Sol Rashidi, who brings decades of real-world CDAO experiences, and finally, Bernard Marr, well-known futurist and prolific author.

Key Moments:

Jeremy Kahn

  • The history of AI: the Turing Test and the Eliza Effect with Jeremy Kahn (1:50)
  • Jeremy’s view on how we can learn from lessons of the past (9:00)
  • It starts with data and people: leveraging AI to increase productivity (16:00)

Sol Rashidi

  • Sol Rashidi on failing to succeed in AI (31:00)
  • The need for rogue executives (37:00)
  • Sol’s view on prioritizing GenAI use cases and measuring ROI (42:50)

Bernard Marr

  • Bernard Marr on demystifying AI (60:02)
  • Is society ready for AI’s impact on augmenting jobs? (66:00)
  • AI’s impact on personalization of medicine, treatment and drug discovery (72:00)

Key Quotes: 

Jeremy Kahn

We're in a position where we can take action while this technology is still being shaped, to try to set some sensible guardrails. If we do that, we will see a lot of benefit from this technology. If we wait, we’re going to be in a situation like with social media. We will have a deskilling of essential human cognitive abilities.

We don’t talk enough about how to train people to use AI software. The organizations that think hardest about that are going to be very successful.

Sol Rashidi

Usually I start the conversations of how ROI shouldn't just be a financial measure. There's three ROI's in my opinion. There's a financial ROI, there's a cultural ROI, and there's a relevancy ROI.

I am adamant that business value is not the number one marker. Everything needs to be scored and graded by criticality and complexity. And your criticality is a measure of ‘what is the impact if we don't do this?

Bernard Marr

What we are seeing is we will see an augmentation of pretty much every single job. I can't think of many jobs that will not be augmented by GenAI. We need to really expect change as individuals.

We must create a world where education is seen as something that never stops, that carries on. I believe that we are currently entering a hyper evolution cycle, with artificial intelligence right at the center of it.

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Bio: 

About Jeremy Kahn

Jeremy Kahn is an award-winning journalist for Fortune magazine, where he covers AI and other emerging technologies. Previously, he wrote about technology, including AI, for Bloomberg. His writing on a range of subjects has also appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek,The Atlantic, Smithsonian magazine, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, and Slate. An Ohio native, he now lives with his family in Oxford, England.

About Sol Rashidi

With 10 patents granted and winning numerous awards that include: 'Forbes AI Maverick & Visionary of the 21st Century', 'Top 100 People in AI', 'Global 100 Power List', 'Top 75 Innovators', 'CAO of the Year', 'Top 5 CDO's', 'Top 65 Most Influential Women', Sol Rashidi is an seasoned executive, leader, and influencer within the AI, data, and technology space.

Sol’s experience comes from real-world deployments where she has had to roll up her sleeves and do the work, while keeping the strategic intent in mind. Sol is currently Head of Technology for Startups, North America, at AWS.

About Bernard Marr

Bernard Marr is a multi-award-winning and internationally best-selling author of over 20 books, who writes a regular column for Forbes and advises and works with many of the world’s best-known organizations.

He has a combined following of 4 million people across his social media channels and newsletters and was ranked by LinkedIn as one of the top 5 business influencers in the world.