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What you need to know about product management for AI

O'Reilly on Data

In the best case scenario, the trained neural network accurately represents the underlying phenomenon of interest and produces the correct output even when presented with new input data the model didn’t see during training. Machine learning adds uncertainty. Models within AI products change the same world they try to predict.

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Machine Learning Product Management: Lessons Learned

Domino Data Lab

I was fortunate to see an early iteration of Pete Skomoroch ’s ML product management presentation in November 2018. Pete indicates, in both his November 2018 and Strata London talks, that ML requires a more experimental approach than traditional software engineering. Addressing the Uncertainty that ML Adds to Product Roadmaps.

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Belcorp reimagines R&D with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

These circumstances have induced uncertainty across our entire business value chain,” says Venkat Gopalan, chief digital, data and technology officer, Belcorp. “As Working with non-typical data presents us with a reality where encountering challenges is part of our daily operations.”

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Uncertainties: Statistical, Representational, Interventional

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by AMIR NAJMI & MUKUND SUNDARARAJAN Data science is about decision making under uncertainty. Some of that uncertainty is the result of statistical inference, i.e., using a finite sample of observations for estimation. But there are other kinds of uncertainty, at least as important, that are not statistical in nature.

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CIOs press ahead for gen AI edge — despite misgivings

CIO Business Intelligence

If anything, 2023 has proved to be a year of reckoning for businesses, and IT leaders in particular, as they attempt to come to grips with the disruptive potential of this technology — just as debates over the best path forward for AI have accelerated and regulatory uncertainty has cast a longer shadow over its outlook in the wake of these events.

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20 issues shaping generative AI strategies today

CIO Business Intelligence

No good guidance yet As CIOs seek to bring control and risk management to technology that’s generating widespread interest and plenty of experimentation, they’re doing so without pre-existing guidance and support. There’s a lot of uncertainty. People are thinking, ‘How is this going to affect my career? Do I need to reskill?’”

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Variance and significance in large-scale online services

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Unlike experimentation in some other areas, LSOS experiments present a surprising challenge to statisticians — even though we operate in the realm of “big data”, the statistical uncertainty in our experiments can be substantial. We must therefore maintain statistical rigor in quantifying experimental uncertainty.