On day one of a project, a manager or customer will inevitably ask the AI expert what kind of data is being dealt with, and in which format. Providing an answer to that will take some hard work. The AI expert never really thought of that, having acquired expertise using the available, optimized, and downloadable training datasets to test the programs. The expert's name is Pert Ex (an anagram of expert) in this chapter. The expert likes to be called Pert.
The CEO of the corporation (or boss or customer) wants Pert to lead an Amazonization project. Pert doesn't quite understand what that means. The CEO has the patience to explain that wholesale e-commerce has overtaken traditional ways of doing business. Wholesale means increasing use of warehouses. How those warehouses are managed will make a difference to the cost of each project and...