New AI leader, Faculty, launches with pledge to 'make AI real’
(London, UK) A new AI brand – Faculty – has launched today to help organisations make artificial intelligence real.
(London, UK) A new AI brand – Faculty – has launched today to help organisations make artificial intelligence real. Faculty is the new brand identity for one of the UK’s leading independent AI companies, ASI Data Science, and brings together its distinct offering of strategy, software and skills, all three of which are needed for organisations to apply AI in the real world today.
The announcement of the new Faculty brand follows the company’s appointment to run the Cross-government AI Adoption Review announced in the Autumn 2018 Budget. Faculty will be working with the Office for Artificial Intelligence (OAI) and Government Digital Service (GDS) to identify the most significant opportunities to introduce AI across government with the aim of increasing productivity and improving the quality of public services. The Review follows actions taken by the government to ensure the UK is at the forefront of emerging digital technologies, including through the Industrial Strategy Artificial Intelligence and Data Grand Challenge and Sector Deal.
Other new client wins for Faculty include Travix, Aecom and Fullbeauty Brands, adding to over 300 commercial AI projects already completed across 23 industry sectors.
The new brand name and identity speak to an age where artificial intelligence has emerged as our most important technology. Faculty believes that AI is most valuable when it is applied to the real world: enhancing products, improving services and saving lives. To apply AI in the real world, organisations need the combination of the right strategy, software and skills. Faculty helps with all three.
The launch of the new Faculty brand, created by the world’s largest independent design agency, Pentagram, brings together all parts of the business (including the SherlockML platform) under one unifying name that strengthens the company’s identity and better represents its unique proposition to the market. The ‘Faculty’ name was chosen as it is a community, but also a source of human expertise and machine intelligence.
Marc Warner, CEO & Co-Founder of Faculty, said:
‘We hear a lot of talk about the potential of AI, but the industry now needs to focus on less talk and more real-world deployments to get value out of the technology. To apply AI, organisations need the right strategy, skills and software at the same time – failure on any of these elements will stop effective implementation. Our business is uniquely positioned to help organisations with all three parts needed to make AI real. Rebranding to Faculty means we now have a name and identity that match our vision for AI and better represent the work we do as we enter our next phase of growth.’
The new name will be important for Faculty as it looks to meet its ambitious 2019 growth plans to double staff numbers, continue its revenue trajectory that has doubled each year, and expand into overseas markets.
Faculty will continue to focus on developing its own research programme into AI Safety and furthering its work with the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity to develop tools to identify so-called deepfake synthesised audio and video recordings of public figures designed to influence public opinion around elections.
The comprehensive rebrand also comes with a newly designed website – faculty.ai – created by the digital branding agency Pollen.
The Faculty brand and name will be effective from 7th February 2019.
