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Humans and AI: How Should You Talk About AI? Be Positive or Give Warnings?

DataRobot

In 2019, Utah struck a deal with Banjo, a threat detection firm selling AI services to process live traffic feeds, dispatch logs, and other data. AI and Uncertainty. Some people react to the uncertainty with fear and suspicion. Recently published research addressed the question of “ When Does Uncertainty Matter?:

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In AI we trust? Why we Need to Talk About Ethics and Governance (part 2 of 2)

Cloudera

In 2019, the Gradient institute published a white paper outlining the practical challenges for Ethical AI. Systems should be designed with bias, causality and uncertainty in mind. Uncertainty is a measure of our confidence in the predictions made by a system. We need to get to the root of the problem. System Design.

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How to Use Big Data to Cash in on the Firearms Market

Smart Data Collective

Statistics over time have proven that the firearms industry does exceptionally well under two conditions: right before a presidential election and during a national crisis. For instance, firearm sales are up 95% from 2019 and ammunition sales are up by 139%. Currently, the U.S. is facing both of these conditions at once.

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What you need to know about product management for AI

O'Reilly on Data

All you need to know for now is that machine learning uses statistical techniques to give computer systems the ability to “learn” by being trained on existing data. Machine learning adds uncertainty. Underneath this uncertainty lies further uncertainty in the development process itself.

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Insight Launches New Post-Program Experience Funded via Income Share Agreement

Insight

In 2019, over 1,000 Insight Fellows completed one of our 7 programs across 6 locations & remote. Their latest placement and salary statistics are: 88% of Insight Fellows accept a job offer in their chosen field within 6 months of finishing the Fellows Program, and the median time to accept a job offer is 8 weeks.

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New Thinking, Old Thinking and a Fairytale

Peter James Thomas

Of course it can be argued that you can use statistics (and Google Trends in particular) to prove anything [1] , but I found the above figures striking. ” The Atlantic – Workers Love AirPods Because Employers Stole Their Walls , Amanda Mull, April 2019. King was a wise King, but now he was gripped with uncertainty.

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

If $Y$ at that point is (statistically and practically) significantly better than our current operating point, and that point is deemed acceptable, we update the system parameters to this better value. Crucially, it takes into account the uncertainty inherent in our experiments.