How did the Guinness Brewing Company help shape the foundations of modern AI more than 100 years ago? And what do terms like large language models, supervised learning, and unsupervised learning actually mean in practice?

Our Demystifying Digitalisation and AI in Maritime campaign sets the scene. It cuts through the hype to provide clear, practical context on how different types of AI emerged and how they are used today.

In this video, our CEO Namrata Nadkarni is joined by Grant Allen, Technology Programme Manager and Principal Architect at Google, Founder of Artifex Digital, and Co-Founder of One Vision Partners. Grant explores the early history of AI, explains key concepts such as regression and prediction (including predicting beer sales), and outlines the differences between supervised and unsupervised learning.

Filmed as part of Intent’s year-long digitalisation campaign, this discussion also touches on image recognition and symbolic AI, and why effective use of AI depends on selecting the right approach for the task at hand.

The other videos in this series will build on this foundation, moving from core concepts into more applied and sector-specific discussions.

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