By Ry Crozier on Mar 9, 2021 12:58PM
Looks to academia to validate direction.
The Commonwealth Bank has embedded data science people in almost every part of the group’s operations, hoping their domain knowledge will lead to more AI-powered optimisations.
Chief data scientist Dan Jermyn told the AI Australia by Eliiza podcast that the bank had split its AI and data science efforts - which come under a broader “decision science” effort internally - between embedded capabilities and a more centralised AI Labs team.
Eliiza is a Melbourne-based data science consultancy.
“We think about our AI and data science capability in two ways,” Jermyn told the podcast in a wide-ranging interview.