Neuroscience to AI: How Shiyi Pickrell is helping Expedia connect the dots in a data-driven landscape
It might sound like a leap at first, but the more you think about the similarities between neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, the more it makes sense. In fact, some of the earliest working artificial neural networks from the 50s – the building blocks of today’s AI – were modeled after the way the brain works.
Still, when Expedia Group’s SVP of Data and AI, Shiyi Pickrell, pursued her neuroscience degree, it’s hard to say if she could have predicted its relevance to her future work in artificial intelligence and data science.
Neurons, like their AI counterpart, perceptrons, are all about…
