Re: ai strategist role

I agree with both Paul and Owen's points.

On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 at 16:16, Paul Alagna <pjalagna@gmail.com> wrote:

> All;
> I come from a very object oriented world.
> I order a pizza from amazon I don't know nor do I care about their
> methods. I do care that they subscribe to some standard of quality and
> sanitary oversight. but their inner methods are unknown to me.
>
> So too for AI. the AI strategist is consulted because the business world
> has needs for a solution that might be best solved by AI. (EG some business
> entity said "we need facial recognition of tabby cats" could AI do that?)
>
> Once that consultation leads to a contract. the AI PRODUCT is designed
> using the pillers of "requirements"(think), "prototyping"(act),
> "testing"(check), and "acceptance"(do) in whatever method that AI
> production team is comfortable with.
> I would add another 3 pillers from ISO 9000: "Document"(explain it),
> "Audit"(record your changes), "Review"(continuous improvement)
>
> The KPI's for an AI product should be unique to AI with some large overlap
> with those of software systems.
>
> the "Knowledge" {imho} comes from the interaction with those element from
> the Zachman paradigm.  see
>
> https://www.visual-paradigm.com/guide/enterprise-architecture/what-is-zachman-framework/
>
> as does the usefulness, ethics and lawfulness.
>
> thoughts?
>
> Paul Alagna
>
> — this is the fun part
>
> On Jun 10, 2020, at 9:24 AM, Owen Ambur <Owen.Ambur@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Chris, like you, I'm unclear on the difference between an AI Strategist
> and and AI KR Strategist.  I don't know what the latter is.
>
> However, if there is a valid distinction between the two, it should be
> clarified in the roles specified for each of them -- in model performance
> plans.  Hopefully, we can come to clearer agreement on that during our next
> meeting, if not via edits to the draft performance plan in the meantime.
>
> Owen
> On 6/10/2020 6:52 AM, Chris Fox wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 at 10:59, Paola Di Maio <paoladimaio10@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 4:12 PM Chris Fox <chris@chriscfox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I agree that we should stick to Goals and Objectives.
>>>
>>
>> so would the goals for th ai strategy be......... what isare the goal/s
>> of the strategy?
>>
>
> Not "the goals of *the strategy*" but rather "the goals of *an AI
> strategist*".
>
> On a related note, we've previously talked around in circles about "AI
> strategist" or "AI KR strategist". I understand the former and think that's
> is what we are talking about. I am not sure I understand the latter.
>
>
>>
>>> If you get into system development life cycles you will open up the
>>> debate between various types of waterfall and agile methodologies. That is
>>> a whole different can of worms and not necessary for our purposes.
>>>
>>> so should we set aside the whole requirements and focus on what are the
>> goals of the
>> ai strategy/ist which are not already covered by  ai systems development
>> and maybe define how the ai strategy interfaces with the
>> requirements/specification which is what the sys dev plan would be
>> for
>>
>
> I think we should focus on the specific goals of an AI Strategist.
> Ideally, they should not overlap with those of an AI systems developer. If
> they do, then I suspect we have failed to achieve separation of
> responsibilities. That does not mean that one person cannot fulfil both
> roles. But the roles should still remain separate.
>
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