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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE “AI is not new, because we have been using mathematics for more than 1,000 years,” says data science and AI technical specialist for IBM, Tanut Karnwai. “AI is more than a math story. It tells a history of two great civilisations of hardware and software.” Tanut’s comments challenge a common misconception about artificial intelligence: that it is something unique to the 21st century. He elaborates, “If we have a single equation or question, it’s called mathematics. But if a student has to solve a problem ten times to learn an answer to a question, and they learn from question 1 the way to answer question 2, and then question 3, and so on, then that’s how the machine learning in AI works, too.” Tanut credits the University of Wolverhampton with having given him his first opportunity to study applied artificial intelligence. His graduation project explored using AI to detect the movements of arm muscles to understand the sign language that the gestures correspond with, in real-time.
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Speaking at TechFin Asia, December 2019, in Seoul, South Korea
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