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2 More Ways To Hybridize Predictive AI And Generative AI
  Originally published in Forbes Predictive AI and generative AI...
How To Overcome Predictive AI’s Everyday Failure
  Originally published in Forbes Executives know the importance of predictive...
Our Last Hope Before The AI Bubble Detonates: Taming LLMs
  Originally published in Forbes To know that we’re in...
The Agentic AI Hype Cycle Is Out Of Control — Yet Widely Normalized
  Originally published in Forbes I recently wrote about how...

Archive for January, 2023

OpenAI’s Attempts to Watermark AI Text Hit Limits

 Originally published in TechCrunch, Dec 22, 2022. It’s proving tough to rein in systems like ChatGPT. Did a human write that, or ChatGPT? It can be hard to tell — perhaps too hard, its creator OpenAI thinks, which is why it is working on a way to “watermark” AI-generated content. In a lecture at the University of Texas at

As NYC Public Schools Block ChatGPT, OpenAI Says It’s Working on ‘Mitigations’ to Help Spot ChatGPT-Generated Text

 Originally published in TechCrunch, Jan 5, 2023. New York City public schools have restricted access to ChatGPT, the AI system that can generate text on a range of subjects and in various styles, on school networks and devices....

Why eBay’s AI Chief is Setting Guardrails For Use of Low-Code AI

 Originally published in Protocol, Jan 13, 2022. Companies shouldn’t treat AI tools like regular software, according to eBay’s chief AI officer, Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov. They require special monitoring and permissions. Ebay’s Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov has big plans for helping...

The Viral AI avatar App Lensa Undressed Me—Without My Consent

 Originally published in MIT Technology Review, Dec 12, 2022.   My avatars were cartoonishly pornified, while my male colleagues got to be astronauts, explorers, and inventors. When I tried the new viral AI avatar app Lensa, I was...

How Pinterest Leverages Realtime User Actions in Recommendation to Boost Homefeed Engagement Volume

 Originally published in Pinterest Engineering Blog, Nov 4, 2022.  In this blog post, we will demonstrate how we improved Pinterest Homefeed engagement volume from a machine learning model design perspective — by leveraging realtime user action features...