Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. This is a very special week for Exponential View: we’re celebrating the 100th edition of the Charts of the Week and the 400th edition of the Sunday Newsletter!
We’ll take a step back, and reflect on what has changed since the first edition of the newsletter, back in March 2015.
CHARTS OF EXPONENTIAL CHANGE
Artificial intelligence
In early 2015, I was occupied thinking about the potential of artificial intelligence — I had just sold a marketing analytics startup that had used lots of machine learning. But I had been so narrowly focused on what customers needed, I had lost track of the advances coming from groups like DeepMind. The newsletter became a way for me to share as I learnt. That’s how Exponential View started. In one of the earliest editions of the missive, I share this article, showing the state of AI in Q1 2015. The two most demonstrative examples were (1) automatic image annotation using a combination of convolutional and recurrent neural networks, and (2…