Alegion Blog

Earlier this year, an article in IT Pro looked at the role that artificial intelligence may play in, ultimately, eliminating jobs.

Deutsche Welle explored the role of Alegion and a couple other companies in utilizing the crowd to to enable artificial intelligence. It noted not only that Alegion is creating jobs, but educating workers so they can be more effective.

One of the Huffington Post’s most high-profile columnist has written about Alegion and the powerful role it plays in the responsible growth of the AI/ML industry. Journalist James Moore also praised Alegion for its ability to source the crowd and “turn data into the clean information needed” to fuel that growth.

In an insightful piece entitled “The Future of AI Depends on a Huge Workforce of Human Teachers,” Businessweek Magazine recently identified Alegion as one of the companies harnessing the crowd for AI and Machine Learning initiatives. Journalist Matthew Hutson spent hours with Alegion CEO Nathaniel Gates and Vice President Chip Ray reporting for the story.

Navidar, a Registered Investment Advisor that closely tracks developments in the artificial intelligence and machine learning space, recently produced a report in that examined how “Machine Learning is Driving an Innovation Wave in SaaS Software". In the report, Navidar singled out Alegion and its role in the industry as the consummate provider of “critical data.”

The influential blog noted how Alegion is “making waves in the burgeoning artificial intelligence sector,” thanks to a recent round of funding and an aptitude for securing the human intelligence “that is required to enable artificial intelligence.”

The Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute singled out Alegion for providing “a workforce that is able to assemble AI training data and scoring at scale. Using a crowdsourced workforce from services like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, Alegion builds large-scale, custom datasets that brands then use to train AI algorithms.” An interview with Alegion CEO Nathaniel Gates follows at the link below.

Never underestimate the importance of good training data, or as Alegion CEO Nathaniel Gates told MarketWatch: “Confidence in the training data produces confidence in the resulting model.”

Alegion CEO Nathaniel Gates told Seeking Alpha that Alegion is “uniquely positioned to supply the human intelligence that is required to enable artificial intelligence.” Check out the story at the link below.

Yahoo! Finance recently quoted Alegion CEO Nathaniel Gates about the company’s formula of introducing “human intelligence into the (data procurement) process, which provides the quality and scale necessary to achieve rapid, successful results."