AI cannot optimize a company it cannot understand

Before a company can become optimizable, it has to become understandable for the intelligence trying to optimize it.

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For many weeks now, I have been trying to describe in my Fast Company essays what I think is the future of corporate AI. Now imagine that someone, somewhere, comes up with a solution that fulfills the requirements I have been drafting here. Would your company be able to jump on its platform and access all the advantages we have been describing? 

To start optimizing a company with artificial intelligence, AI needs to understand what you want to optimize; AI cannot properly optimize what it cannot represent. The paradox is that companies are giving increasingly........

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