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It’s not because we have insufficient data…

February 27, 2023 By editor

In 1998, Neil Postman wrote critically about the Age of Information. If there are children starving in the world—and there are—it is not because of insufficient information. [...] If there is violence on our streets, it is not because we have insufficient information. If women are abused, if divorce and pornography and mental illness are increasing, none of it has anything to do with insufficient … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data science, Machine learning Tagged With: data, information

Large Language Models

February 19, 2023 By editor

Stephen Wolfram has written a comprehensive description of how Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, work. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Machine learning Tagged With: ChatGPT, LLM

The company you keep…

May 7, 2021 By editor

Researchers have demonstrated how objects can be hidden by exploiting correlation bias. Computer vision systems, like other machine learning technologies, rely on correlation and context. They learn that certain things often appear together--like mice and keyboards. But you don't expect to see a platypus wielding a chainsaw, for example (...you've no idea how much I wanted to find that splash … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data science, Machine learning Tagged With: AI hacking, correlation bias

Skin in the game

December 8, 2018 By editor

I tend to listen more to opinions when people have placed money on their espoused outcome---having "skin in the game", as Nicholas Taleb calls it in his latest book. However, this robotics developer seems to have gone one better. He literally has skin in the game. Good scientists aren't supposed to experiment on themselves, but I will feel better if the first people to use autonomous cars are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Software Tagged With: quality, robotics, skin in the game, software

Google Dataset Search

November 7, 2018 By editor

Google have created a tool to make it easier to discover datasets---Google Dataset Search. One potential downside is that it requires dataset owners to provide metadata. While the Google brand means that this might get some traction, not all dataset owners are motivated to help the cause. Publication of datasets is now mandated by some funding bodies, but that doesn't mean that the datasets have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data analysis, Data science, Machine learning Tagged With: datasets

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