Rod Butters | Source | Chief Technology Officer at Aible
Rod Butters
Rod is the Chief Technology Officer at Aible. He has over 20 years of Chief Technology Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, and Chief Product Officer experience bringing enterprise apps, infrastructure, and cloud solutions to market, from concept to market leadership. Rid has a track record of pioneering category creation in Application Servers (Oracle), Multi-channel Contact Center (Aspect Communications), IT Automation (Tidal Software, acquired by Cisco), flash virtualization (RNA Networks, acquired by Dell). As Chief Technology Officer of Kenandy, architected, built and deployed Cloud ERP solution on the Salesforce platform -- including financials, manufacturing, distribution, order management and supply chain -- uniquely scaling from mid-sized companies to over $2B revenue enterprises.
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Artificial Intelligence May Be Just Code, But It’s Our Code
'The reality is that an AI is just a statistical engine, and in a lot of cases, it’s a bad statistical engine.'
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We think AI is telling us something, but it’s not. It’s just a bunch of code. It doesn’t know. This is the fantasy we all fall into. Somehow we think that model has embodies something. The reality is that an AI is just a statistical engine, and in a lot of cases, it’s a bad statistical engine. When we tell data scientists go out and create a model, we’re asking them to be a mind reader and a fortune teller. Those are two bad job sets, it doesn’t work. The data scientist is trying to do the right thing, creating a responsible and solid model, but based on what? Ultimately when they build a model, unless they’ve got this combination to create transparency, create expandability, actually communicate that across to the business constituency both at a strategic and tactical, who is in charge? Just creating a great model does not necessarily solve all problems.
