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What Henry Ford can teach us about AI

Kathryn Hume |

TED Salon: Brightline Initiative

• October 2018

Henry Ford is best known for the assembly line, but his lesser-known ability to repurpose scraps is what interests Kathryn Hume. As an AI strategist, Hume believes that this is the true promise of AI and machine learning -- to make processes better and then repurpose the data collected to build something entirely new. In this fascinating talk, she explains how companies can use AI to optimize their current work and use the information generated to create new business.

Henry Ford is best known for the assembly line, but his lesser-known ability to repurpose scraps is what interests Kathryn Hume. As an AI strategist, Hume believes that this is the true promise of AI and machine learning -- to make processes better and then repurpose the data collected to build something entirely new. In this fascinating talk, she explains how companies can use AI to optimize their current work and use the information generated to create new business.

This talk was presented at a TED Salon event given in partnership with Brightline Initiative.

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About the speaker

Kathryn Hume

Kathryn Hume

AI entrepreneur

Kathryn Hume transforms businesses with AI. She is currently vice president of product and strategy for integrate.ai, a startup that helps large enterprises improve customer engagement using artificial intelligence, and a venture partner at ffVC, where she advises AI startups. As the former director of sales and marketing at Fast Forward Labs (Cloudera), Hume helped Fortune 500 companies accelerate their machine learning and data science capabilities. Prior to that, she was a principal consultant in Intapp's Risk Practice. Hume excels at communicating in plain language how AI and machine learning technologies work.

About TED Salon

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This talk was presented at a TED Salon event given in partnership with Brightline Initiative.

Read more about TED Salons.