Our algorithmic planet

Book review of Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World

In one of the most masterful expositions, Messrs Iansiti and Lakhani, Harvard Business School dons, lay bare the nuances of strategy and leadership when algorithms run the world. The book begins with how artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) recreate a Rembrandt masterpiece 350 years after his death, which even art experts could not detect at first sight. It also explains how the now more than 10 trillion digital photographs each year, five orders of magnitude greater than the total number of traditional photographs ever taken, are a growing dataset that, with some training from the algorithms that Google, WeChat,