Summary:  There have been several stories over the last several months around the theme that AI is about to hit a wall.  That the rapid improvements we’ve experienced and the benefits we’ve accrued can’t continue at the current pace.  It’s worth taking a look at these arguments to see if we should be adjusting our plans and expectations.

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Ben Rooney, of WSJ Europe, recently posted a quick interview with EMC's Pat Gelsinger discussing Big Data. In my opinion, Gelsinger is one of the most thoughtful (and successful) high tech execs in the entire industry. His perspective on Big Data is spot on.

“We do think there is this new skill set— data scientist,” he said in an interview at a London conference he hosted on Big Data. “This will be the cool new place to be, like computer science was 30 years ago. Then we…