- June 29, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
We often see artificial intelligence depicted as an omnipotent machine, but it is a technology that learns as it goes, too. Key among the lessons AI must be taught is location intelligence: where are assets, events, and people across space and time, and how do they relate to each other?
Just think of all the pandemic-era technology to flourish relying on location—the delivery apps, the COVID testing and vaccine dashboards, the safe to-go store orders. Location intelligence, the output of a geographic information system (GIS), offers critical context that forms the foundation of what machines can be trained to do.
Here are four ways to ramp up AI with location intelligence.
1. Make Keen Predictions with Recommender Systems
No longer requiring huge inputs of historical data before getting to work, AI now often uses reinforcement learning when an answer is unknown. Machines are working through scenarios in a trial-and-error fashion, much like humans…
