Faculty offers all of these. Co-founded in 2014 as ASI Data Science by then Harvard quantum physics research fellow Warner, it was renamed Faculty in 2019. This might have been an attempt to disassociate it from allegations, which it strenuously denied, that it was part of the same internship program as scandal-hit company Cambridge Analytica, through the latter’s parent company, SCL Group.
Since then, Faculty has established a solid reputation through its work with the UK government, including the creation of an NHS Early Warning System (EWS) system used to predict hospital admissions and ventilator requirements during the Covid pandemic.
This dovetails well with Accenture’s direction; it has spent the last year undergoing an AI makeover. In June, the company folded five business units into a single division, Reinvention Services, as part of a plan to “re-invent Itself for the Age of AI.” At the same time, it started calling its employees “reinventors”.
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