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Welcome to this NPTEL online certification
course on artificial intelligence marketing
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and now we are talking of module 8. So we
are discussing how to transform marketing
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strategy using AI. So now this is part 2
of this and we are in module 8. In this
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module we will explore the ideas framework and
understand 5 elements of technology landscape.
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Then we will study the expertise, architecture
and strategy landscape of ideas framework in
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detail. Thereafter we will understand human
and machine expertise and capabilities.
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Then we will understand the phenomena of
human teaching machines and build machine
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expertise. Thereafter we will understand IT
architecture as living system. Study digital
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decoupling to transform legacy architecture
into living systems and to study technology
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integrated strategy to explore the stages
of human-machine interaction and then study
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the technology integrated strategy in the
age of ideas. So let us again look at the
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5 elements of the technology landscape
that are these 5 things intelligence,
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data, expertise, architecture and strategies
and combined they form this idea framework.
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Now let us look at this we have talked about
the intelligence and data now we will talk
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about expertise. Machine teaching can unleash the
often untapped expertise that exists throughout an
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organization allowing a large number of people
to use AI in new and sophisticated ways. It is
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customizable according to business situations
thus it opens the way to real innovation and
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advantage. Now let us look at the human-machine
hybrid activities. So machine augment human how?
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First amplifying our powers and in providing
otherwise unattainable data-driven insights.
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Interacting with us through intelligent agents
and embodying us as with robots that extend our
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physical capabilities. In turn human complement
machines how? By training them as in labeling data
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for machine learning systems. Explaining them to
bridge the gap between technologists and business
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leaders and sustaining them by ensuring that AI
systems are functioning properly, ethically and
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in the service of the human rather than the
other way round. And in turn human complement
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machines by teaching machines the by endowing them
with the experience of experts. In the new world
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of human teaching machines the real difference
makers for business will be the domain expert.
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So that will be the real difference makers
who are the experts. So machine teaching
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is about the transfer of knowledge from the
human expert to the machine learning system.
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Machine teaching includes three distinct areas
of human expertise that AI has long struggled to
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incorporate. One is the professional experience,
second is collective social experience and the
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third is personal experience. The innate and
acquired individual abilities of human being.
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Making AI innovation business specific.
Developers or subject matter experts with
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little AI expertise such as lawyers, accountants,
engineers, nurses or forklift operators can impart
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important abstract concepts to an intelligent
system which then performs the machine learning
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mechanics in the background. Someone who
understand the task at hand decompose the
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problem into smaller parts and sets of rules and
criteria for how the autonomous devices should
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operate. Then using simulation software the
experts provide a limited number of examples.
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The equivalent of lesson plan that helps the
machine learning algorithm solve the problem.
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If the device consistently makes the same
mistakes additional examples can be added
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to the digital curriculum. Once the curriculum
is in place the system automates the process
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of teaching and learning across hundreds and
thousands of simulations at the same time. It
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is not randomly exploring it is exploring
in a way that is guided by the teacher. So
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we are exploring in a way that is guided by
the expert the teacher. Collective expertise.
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Teaching AI social context. Humans operate
often effortlessly in collective and social
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context of immense complexity. These contexts
overlap and inter penetrate and are constantly
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evolving on short and long time scales.
When we maneuver a car through an urban
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environment we are negotiating a dense
web of social systems. We are processing
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and anticipating the movements of other
vehicles and the intentions of their drivers.
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We are following and may be bending the
formal rules of road and engaging in in
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the informal ones embedded in our culture.
For instance in some cultures flashing your
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headlights on and off means you are yielding to
another vehicle. In other cultures it means you
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are coming through and the other vehicle
dam will better get give way. So these
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are the two opposite courses of action.
While the course of action was the same.
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So now let us look at the wisdom of crowds
plus machine. Forecasting real life events
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of importance. Example geopolitical events
behavior of drivers on a highway etcetera is
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notoriously difficult. Experts predictive
accuracy tracked over time has been shown
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to be comparable to a random guess. One way
to improve forecast is to crowd source them.
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Aggregating a large number of human forecast into
a single estimate of probability. This wisdom
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of crowds holds that large groups of people
outperform a small allied groups of experts
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at solving problems making wise decisions and
predicting the future. In other word collective
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expertise in the broader sense can sometimes
be superior to highly specific individual
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expertise. At the same time advances in machine
learning have led to models that produce fairly
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reasonable forecasts for a number of tasks.
The SAGE that is synergistic anticipation
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of geopolitical events projects combine the
power of crowdsourcing with advances in AI.
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Hence the term synergistic in its name to
generate more accurate predictions that
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either method could on its own. In a competition
held to test the accuracy of forecasting systems
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SAGE was tested against two competing systems
given the same set of more than 400 forecasting
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questions SAGE won hence highlighting the
importance of collective expertise. Now let
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us look at the personal expertise inherent
human technology. For decades AI researchers
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have struggled with how to imbue machines
with the basic building blocks of human
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intelligence. But the human turn in intelligence
is not about recreating human consciousness.
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Instead it is about solving problems by
mimicking the most powerful cognitive
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characteristics of human and supplementing them
with the most powerful abilities of computers.
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The radically human turn in personal expertise
is about directly leveraging not mimicking the
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innate and acquired intelligence of human
to augment AI. This can be more subtle kind
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of teaching. A kind where tested skills
some that the teacher may not even know
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they possess are subtly transferred to a
learning system. The next comes expertise.
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In supervised learning scenarios machine
teaching is particularly useful when little
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or no labeled training data exist for the
machine learning algorithms as is often
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does not because an industry or a company needs
are so specific. Now let us look at the example
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of Etsy. For Etsy an online marketplace for
vintage and handmade goods classifying them
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by style was particularly challenging. So
most of the product on its sites are one
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of a kind creation and there are some
50 million items on offer at any given
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time. So now you see there are 50 million
items and every item is a different item.
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In the past style based recommendation system
produced unexplainable product suggestions for
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the group of shoppers because the AI assumed that
two items would be similar in style if they are
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frequently purchased together. So that was the
problem. In order to teach AI the subjective
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notions of style Etsy merchandising experts
developed 42 style labels that captured buyers
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traced across 15 categories from jewelry to toys
to crafts. The merchandiser produced a list of
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130000 items distributed across these 42 styles.
Etsy technologies then turned to buyers who tend
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to use style related terms in their searches
typing in things like art, deco, sideboard.
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From just one month of such queries the
company was able to collect a labeled data
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set of 3 million instances against which
to test their style classifications. So
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that happened within one month. Etsy engineers
then trained a neural network to use textual and
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visual cues to best distinguish between
those classification for each item. The
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result was style predictions for all
50 million active items on Etsy.com.
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Now let us look at the implications
of machine teaching by experts. One
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is the increased relevance. The search engines
allowed buyers to find products that express
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their sense of taste and style. The second
is increased sales. During COVID-19 sales of
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masks tailored to the aesthetic sensibility
of customers went from virtually nothing
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in April 2020 to some $740 million for the
next of the year for the rest of the year.
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The third is the company's revenues more than
doubled during that time and its market value
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rose to $22 billion. The next comes the A
on the ideas framework that is architecture.
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So legacy architecture are tightly bounded
maintaining barriers between lines of businesses,
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geographies, sales channels and functions.
The wide range of emerging information
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technologies supports the development
of IT architecture as living system as
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shown in the next slide. So let us look
at the IT architecture as living system.
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One is that it is boundary less. It breaks down
barriers within the IT stack and also between
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companies using cloud based platforms to harness
network effects. Another characteristic of this
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living system is that they are adaptable.
Rapidly adjusted to business and technology
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changes. Adaptable systems move legacy systems to
the cloud to reduce dependence between systems.
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Increase speed and efficiency, capitalize on human
intelligence of your talent and meet the evolving
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needs of the customers. The third is radically
human modeled on human brain and behavior. IT
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architecture as living systems are radically
human in the ways they use agile methods,
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complex human intelligence, nimble data strategies
to deliver insight and trusted experience. Such
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systems connect people across organization
silos, bringing together business talent,
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IT talent and ecosystem partners
to innovate and co-create. Digital
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decoupling, the first component of that
is legacy architecture to living system.
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For many companies the journey
towards living systems begin with
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digital decoupling. So that is the
first step. Using new technologies,
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data access methods and development methodologies
to build new system that execute alongside the
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legacy systems. This includes open application
programming interfaces that is APIs, agile DevOps,
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cloud migration factories and robotic process
automation that enables greater flexibility.
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Using this and other approaches, organizations
can gradually decouple their core systems,
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migrating critical customer facing functionality
and data to new service based platforms.
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Instead of periodic large scale IT transformations
that rigid architectures require, this decoupled
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approach provides a stable and constantly evolving
architecture capable of accommodating innovation
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and scaling to respond quickly to changing market
conditions and the competitive landscape. LL Bean
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is a 110 year old retailer with a heritage that
include classic clothing, rugged outdoor gears
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and a deep commitment to customer satisfaction.
So these are the three things that they have.
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In recent years, as the company reached out
to customers across multiple channels, print,
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brick and mortar stores, computers and
mobile websites, email and social media,
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it found itself hampered by a cumbersome
IT system. Different platforms only loosely
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connected supported different customer
channels running on separate applications.
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So providing a seamless customer experience across
all channels was next to impossible because there
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were so many channels. Integrating all those
channels and a seamless movement across the
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channes was next to impossible. And instead
of focusing on delivering customer value,
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IT personnel had to spend time managing
the infrastructure. So they were spending
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the time on infrastructure that was bad
instead of delivering on the customer
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value. To compete successfully in the age of
amazing, LL Bean decoupled machine critical
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applications from its legacy IT systems
and located them in the Google Cloud.
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Now let us look at the implications of using
a cloud based architecture. First is increased
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productivity. IT teams could integrate data from
multiple systems, handle peak website loads more
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efficiently and deliver new customer features
faster. Second is the increased efficiency,
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continuous optimization of backend cloud
based architecture, less time spent by
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front end developers on managing it. And the
third is the flexible front end architecture.
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The company can easily, quickly and cost
effectively scale up capacity in peak buying
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periods and scale down during the LULs, the
low period. The next component of this ideas
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framework is the S that is the strategy. So
technology integrated strategy. So far we have
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seen examples of several companies that have
adopted new approaches to intelligence, data,
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expertise and architecture and created
distinctive strategies as varied as the
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industry in which the firm competes. Let us
now take a look at the fifth and the final
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element of the ideas framework which talks
about human centered technological strategy.
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These are the three stages of human machine
interaction. The response of companies to
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intelligent technologies has unfolded in
three stages. Stage one the machine centric,
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stage is collaborative and the three is human
centric. The first stage of the evolution was
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machine centric. The dominant response
to the new technology was to re-engineer
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AI and other emerging technologies were
used to automate the repetitive tasks.
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Humans had to adopt machines and were often
replaced by them. Strategy and execution was
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sequential, spread over steps like assess,
identify, design and implement. The second
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stage of machine human machine interaction was
collaborative. Human and machine adopted to each
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other. As a new generation of intelligent
technologies and techniques emerged,
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companies sought to reimagine their
traditional business processes in
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order to take advantage of collaborative
teams of humans working alongside machines.
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Nevertheless, strategy and execution remained
separate. First a process was reimagined in
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light of AI, machine learning and the like
and then tested in small experiments. If it
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passed the test, then it was implemented
at scale across the enterprise. Again
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that was a sequential approach that
separates strategy and execution.
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The third stage underway now is the human
centric. Machines adopt to humans. The
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agility and adaptability of radically human
technologies guided by human enables savvy
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companies to interrelate technology,
strategy formulation and execution
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in an organic whole. The three elements grow
and change synchronously often very rapidly.
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The technology integrated strategies for the
age of ideas. So, three prominent strategies
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illustrate the wide range of possibilities that
radically human technologies have opened up.
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These three stages forever beta,
minimum variable ideas and the
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third is collab create distinctive advantages
for companies and customers alike. Now let us
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look at each one of them. So, forever beta
strategies offer software enabled products
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and services that continually evolve and
improve after they have been purchased.
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So that customers sees them grow in value
and utility over time rather than fade.
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MVI strategies use one or more elements of the
ideas framework to preciously target weak links
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in a traditional industry and provide a superior
customer experience that can be quickly scaled
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to make rapid inroads in the market. Collab
strategies produce superior results in the
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sciences or other knowledge intensive environments
through human guided machine driven discovery.
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Now let us look at the evolution of technology. A
subset of examples of how technology is advancing.
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First is this intelligence. The first
is this intelligence. So machine centric
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that is industrial robots. Uses sensors
to guide pre-programmed actions behind
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safety gates. So this machine centric
machine can do what its program to do.
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Second is collaborative. Human trained
machines machine augment humans that is
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deep learning. Employ neural networks to
learn from large data sets. The third is
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human centric. Machines adapt to
humans and human teach machines.
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So that is emotional AI. Response to
human emotions and increases relevance.
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Then comes the data. Again the three stages
are machine centric, collaborative and human
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centric. So in data machine centric the
machines can do what it is program to do.
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So the data in machine centric means business
intelligence one. Produce reports from database
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queries and batch processes. Collaborative
where human teach machines and machines
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augment human data is big data. Uncovers
actionable patterns from extremely large
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data sets. In human centric where machines
adapt to humans and human teach machines.
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The data is synthetic data. Mimics original data
with strong privacy safeguards. Again in at the
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third stage that is this expertise. Again there
are three stages human centric, collaborative
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and human centric. So expertise in machine centric
is traditional programming uses computer codes to
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instruct machines. Collaborative is data science,
extract insights from data to solve problems.
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And in human centric the expertise is machine
teaching enables non-technical experts to
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train AI systems. The next comes architecture
that is. Again the three stages human centric,
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collaborative and human centric. So
architecture in human centric situation
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is monolithic, works as a homogeneous static
integrated system. Collaborative is layered,
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handles functions autonomously at separate levels.
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And human centric are living systems, assembles
heterogeneous adoptive capabilities dynamically
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like the Lego blocks. Then comes the last one
that is the strategy. Again the three stages
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machine centric, collaborative and human centric.
So strategy in machine centric is re-engineer,
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foster sequential change from analysis to
execution. In collaborative re-imagine,
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rethink processes then sequentially
experiments, adopts and scales.
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And then comes human centric that is interrelate,
synchronize human guided technologies,
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strategy and execution. So in order to conclude we
have studied the ways in which human and machine
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complement each other. We discussed the three
types of expertise which are the professional,
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social and personal expertise. We discussed
the collaborative wisdom of crowds and AI.
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Then we have discussed the IT architecture, how
IT architecture is now evolving as living systems.
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Then we have discussed the three dimensions
of IT architecture as living systems are
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being boundaryless, adaptable and radically
human. Then we have talked about human-machine
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interaction and how it has evolved
from being machine centric to human
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centric. And then we talked about the three
strategies. The first is beta, forever beta.
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The second is minimum viable idea
MVI and the third is CoLab. And
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how are they being adopted in the
age of idea. And these are the five
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books from which the material for
this module was taken. Thank you.