Summary:  Reinforcement Learning (RL) is going to be critical to achieving our AI/ML technology goals but it has several barriers to overcome.  While reliability and a reduction in training data may be achievable within a year, the nature of RL as a ‘black box’ solution will bring scrutiny for its lack of transparency.

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Summary:  For all the hype around winning game play and self-driving cars, traditional Reinforcement Learning (RL) has yet to deliver as a reliable tool for ML applications.  Here we explore the main drawbacks as well as an innovative approach to RL that dramatically reduces the training compute requirement and time to train.

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Summary:  There have been several stories over the last several months around the theme that AI is about to hit a wall.  That the rapid improvements we’ve experienced and the benefits we’ve accrued can’t continue at the current pace.  It’s worth taking a look at these arguments to see if we should be adjusting our plans and expectations.

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Summary:  A little history lesson about all the different names by which the field of data science has been called, and why, whatever you call it, it’s all the same thing.

A little reminiscence, or for those of you who are only recently data scientists, a little history lesson. 

Our profession of…