William Vorhies's Blog – October 2019 Archive (4)

Contextually Intelligent NLP Assistants – AI’s Next Big Technical Challenge

Summary: Contextually intelligent, NLP-based interactive assistants are one of the next big things for AI/ML. The tech is already here from recommendation engines. The need to be more efficient and to become AI-augmented in our decision making is now. Getting the contextual awareness is the hard part.

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Added by William Vorhies on October 28, 2019 at 9:43am — No Comments

The Next Big Thing in AI/ML is…

Summary: AI/ML itself is the next big thing for many fields if you’re on the outside looking in. But if you’re a data scientist it’s possible to see those advancements that will propel AI/ML to its next phase of utility.

“The Next Big Thing in AI/ML is…” as the lead to an article is probably the most…

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Added by William Vorhies on October 21, 2019 at 9:18am — 1 Comment

Surprise – Model Improvements Don’t Always Drive Business Impact

Summary: Data Scientists from Booking.com share many lessons learned in the process of constantly improving their sophisticated ML models. Not the least of which is that improving your models doesn’t always lead to improving business outcomes.

The adoption of AI/ML in business is at an inflection point. …

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Added by William Vorhies on October 14, 2019 at 9:28am — 1 Comment

Complete Hands-Off Automated Machine Learning

Summary: Here’ a proposal for real ‘zero touch’, ‘set-em-and-forget-em’ machine learning from the researchers at Amazon. If you have an environment as fast changing as e-retail and a huge number of models matching buyers and products you could achieve real cost savings and revenue increases by making the refresh cycle faster and more accurate with automation. This capability likely will be coming soon to your favorite AML platform.

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Added by William Vorhies on October 7, 2019 at 7:28am — No Comments