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Effective Machine Learning Needs Leadership — Not AI Hype
 Originally published in BigThink, Feb 12, 2024.  Excerpted from The...
Today’s AI Won’t Radically Transform Society, But It’s Already Reshaping Business
 Originally published in Fast Company, Jan 5, 2024. Eric...
Calculating Customer Potential with Share of Wallet
 No question about it: We, as consumers have our...
A University Curriculum Supplement to Teach a Business Framework for ML Deployment
    In 2023, as a visiting analytics professor...

Deep Learning

Building Airbnb Categories with ML and Human-in-the-Loop

 Originally published in The Airbnb Tech Blog, Nov 21, 2022.    25 Years of Online Travel Search Online travel search hasn’t changed much in the last 25 years. The traveler enters her destination, dates, and the number of guests into a search interface, which dutifully returns a list of options that best meet the criteria.

For Your Eyes Only: Improving Netflix Video Quality With Neural Networks

 Originally published in Netflix Technology Blog, Nov 14, 2022.  When you are binge-watching the latest season of Stranger Things or Ozark, we strive to deliver the best possible video quality to your eyes. To do so, we...

Massive Traffic Experiment Pits Machine Learning Against ‘Phantom’ Jams

 Originally published in Berkeley News, Nov 22, 2022. Many traffic jams are caused by human behavior: a slight tap on the brakes can ripple through a line of cars, triggering a slowdown — or complete gridlock —...

A Far-Sighted Approach to Machine Learning

 Originally published in MIT News, Nov 23, 2022. New system can teach a group of cooperative or competitive AI agents to find an optimal long-term solution. Picture two teams squaring off on a football field. The players...

Dirty Shrimp Farms are Punching a Huge Hole in the Environment. A.I. Could Cut It In Half

 Originally published in Fortune, Oct 24, 2022.    Inside a humid warehouse in suburban Indianapolis, a company called Atarraya is using large metal containers and the latest technology to grow shrimp hundreds of miles from the ocean....

The Biggest Bottleneck for Large Language Model Startups is UX

 Originally published in Innovation Endeavors, Nov 1, 2022.  Applied large language model startups have exploded in the past year. Enormous advances in underlying language modeling technology, coupled with the early success of products like Github CoPilot, have...

AI-Generated Imagery is the New Clip Art as Microsoft Adds DALL-E to its Office Suite

 Originally published in The Verge, Oct 12, 2022.  Microsoft is adding AI-generated art to its suite of Office software with a new app named Microsoft Designer. The app functions the same way as AI text-to-image models like DALL-E...

Microsoft Open Sources Its ‘Farm of the Future’ Toolkit

 Originally published in The AI Blog, Oct 6, 2022.  FARMINGTON, Wash. – The gently rolling hills here in eastern Washington have long grown rich harvests of wheat, barley and lentils. Fifth-generation farmer Andrew Nelson is adding a...

Getting Tabular Data from Unstructured Text with GPT-3: An Ongoing Experiment

 Originally published by Roberto Rocha. One of the most exciting applications of AI in journalism is the creation of structured data from unstructured text. Government reports, legal documents, emails, memos… these are rich with content like names,...

The Science Behind the New “Alexa, What Should I Watch?” Fire TV Experience

 Originally published in Amazon Science, Oct 6, 2022.  “What should I watch?” In an entertainment universe filled with a rapidly expanding catalog of shows across myriad channels and apps, this might be one of the most common...

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