ML is glamorous, exciting and mysterious - all the things that documents and spreadsheets aren't. But we should be looking forward to a world in which deploying advanced ML technologies is just as normal as adding up a column of numbers, and where the human skill of knowing where and how to deploy these new tools is what counts.
In this session, Bill Thompson from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ R&D and regular contributor to the World Service’s Digital Planet programme, demystifies machine learning and discusses with Jules Marshall, Director, Product Data, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Product Group her plans to deploy data at scale in the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ and make ML more effective by establishing it as the norm.