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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Let Bigrams be Bigrams
I’ve spent most of my career advocating for the use of query understanding to improve search relevance. It’s not that I don’t value search…Continue reading on Medium...
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Thinking about a Career in AI?
A few years ago, hardly anyone in the computer science profession would admit to working on “artificial intelligence”. Not unless they had…Continue reading on Medium...
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Where should you put your data scientists?
Today I had the honor of delivering the keynote address at Hilary Mason’s Fast Forward Labs Data Leadership Conference in New York. It was…Continue reading on Medium...
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Hari Seldon, Data Scientist
Like many people who grew up reading science fiction, I idolized Hari Seldon. For those unfamiliar with Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series…Continue reading on Medium...
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Human or Vulcan: Should Data Scientists Rely on Intuition?
Intuition in data science is a funny thing.Continue reading on Medium »
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Hand-coded rules won’t scale.
But a bit of QA would go a long way. And we should all know better than to set an unsupervised bot free on Twitter.Continue reading on Medium »
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Our AI Children Need Supervision
Reading about Microsoft’s misadventures with it’s “Tay” chatbot, I immediately remembered a similar incident several years ago.Continue reading on Medium »
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Technology Can Help Us Collaborate
In my previous post, I argued that collaboration isn’t purely — or even primarily — a technical challenge.Continue reading on Medium »
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Collaboration isn’t a Technology Problem
Collaboration is hard. Technology can improve how we collaborate, but effective collaboration isn’t purely — or even primarily—a technical…Continue reading...
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I agree with the widely expressed concern that the ubiquity of AIs gendered as female is…
That said, I understand the desire to humanize AIs, and gender is part of what makes us human. I just wish we could approach humanization…Continue reading on Medium...
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I agree that the last thing we need in the tech industry is a reinforcement of gender stereotypes.
But to answer your question, yes, the AIs to create the calendar invitations. And I wouldn’t even have seen most of the conversation had I…Continue reading on Medium...
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I don’t know for sure, but I suspect that Clara knows that Sightglass Coffee is Jason’s default…
coffee spot for meetings, since that’s how x.ai works. Also, Jason did specify the Mission as a location in the initial email to Clara.Continue reading on Medium...
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I don’t know much about Clara, but I’m quite sure x.ai
is not. My understanding is that humans only intervene when the AI’s confidence level falls below a certain threshold.Continue reading on Medium »
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"A Conversation Between Two AIs" in ART + marketing
The other day, I was introduced to Jason at Clara Labs, a startup whose product is an AI personal assistant to schedule meetings. As it so…Continue reading on Medium...
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The Noisy Channel Has Moved To LinkedIn
If you’re reading this, then you’re probably interested in my current writing. You can find my latest posts on my LinkedIn author page.
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Onward, Upward, and [In]ward
It’s that time — the end of another great year. It’s been a phenomenal year for LinkedIn, for my amazing team of data scientists, and for me personally. The end...
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Lily 5.0, LinkedIn 2.0
What a wonderful week! On Tuesday, my daughter Lily turned 5. We celebrated by taking her out to her first karaoke night, where she had a blast — as...
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Continuing to Post on LinkedIn
I just posted another pair of articles on LinkedIn: Understanding Relevance Relevance is Complicated I’ll continue to use The Noisy Channel as a personal blog,...
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Follow Me on LinkedIn!
I’ve recently started posting on LinkedIn as part of LinkedIn’s thought leadership program. My first two posts as an “influencer” are a bit meta: Influence and...
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