Machine, Platform, Crowd

literature throughout the first quarter of the twentieth century. Between 1895 an

applications and tasks that machines can now address.

advances and sound economic principles

better understand our universe; Microsoft’s core capabilities include developing

The Work Ahead: Three Rebalancings

Facebook, the world’s most popular media owner, creates no content

Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles,”

was built to discern the subtle patterns present in large amounts of data, and to link actions (like playing a stone in a particular spot on the board) to outcomes (like winning a

Instead, they created a system that could learn them on its own

The humans who built AlphaGo didn’t try to program it with superior Go strategies and heuristics.