By Frank N. Wilner, Capitol Hill Contributing Editor, Railway Age Magazine; August 24, 2018
Watching Washington, August 2018: Human life is measured in scores of years, stars in billions of miles, the national debt in trillions of dollars—all remarkably miniscule numbers compared to the petabytes of data (numbers containing 15 zeroes) generated by artificial intelligence in our increasingly knowledge-based society.
Harvesting, arranging, interpreting and putting to productive use the insights of “Big Data”—predictive analytics—is the work of sophisticated computer technology and advanced employee skills grounded in academic disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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