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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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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. Why experiment with several parameters concurrently?

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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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13 IT resolutions for 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs are readying for another demanding year, anticipating that artificial intelligence, economic uncertainty, business demands, and expectations for ever-increasing levels of speed will all be in play for 2024. He plans to scale his company’s experimental generative AI initiatives “and evolve into an AI-native enterprise” in 2024.

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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 To address the challenges, the company has leveraged a combination of computer vision, neural networks, NLP, and fuzzy logic.

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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.

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Getting ready for artificial general intelligence with examples

IBM Big Data Hub

LLMs like ChatGPT are trained on massive amounts of text data, allowing them to recognize patterns and statistical relationships within language. The AGI would need to handle uncertainty and make decisions with incomplete information. NLP techniques help them parse the nuances of human language, including grammar, syntax and context.