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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...

Predictive Analytics

The Complex Math of Counterfactuals Could Help Spotify Pick Your Next Favorite Song

 Originally published in MIT Technology Review, April 4, 2023. A new kind of machine-learning model built by a team of researchers at the music-streaming firm Spotify captures for the first time the complex math behind counterfactual analysis, a precise technique that can be used to identify the causes of past events and predict the effects of

Deep Agency Shows the Perils of Applying AI to the Fashion Industry

 Originally published in TechCrunch, March 27, 2023. Earlier this month, Danny Postma, the founder of Headlime, an AI-powered marketing copy startup that was recently acquired by Jasper, announced Deep Agency, a platform he describes as an “AI photo studio...

MLW Preview Video: Aric LaBarr, Institute for Advanced Analytics

 In anticipation of his upcoming presentation at Predictive Analytics World Business, part of Machine Learning Week Las Vegas, June 18-22, 2023, Aric LaBarr, Associate Professor of Analytics at Institute for Advanced Analytics at NC State University, provided...

Microsoft Lays Off Team That Taught Employees How to Make AI Tools Responsibly

 Originally published in The Verge, March 13, 2023. As the company accelerates its push into AI products, the ethics and society team is gone. Microsoft laid off its entire ethics and society team within the artificial intelligence...

Distributed Machine Learning at Instacart

 Originally published in Tech At Instacart, March 17, 2023. At Instacart, we take pride in offering a diverse range of machine learning (ML) products that empower every aspect of our marketplace, including customers, shoppers, retailers, and brands....

The Tech Behind Artifact, the Newly Launched News Aggregator From Instagram’s Co-Founders

 Originally published in TechCrunch, March 7, 2023.  Late last month, Artifact, a personalized news reader built by Instagram’s co-founders, opened to the public. The launch was a surprise to many consumers, who wondered why the team behind one of the world’s most...

ML in the Spotlight: Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson Covers Predictive Analytics

 Predictive analytics got another public spotlight and Machine Learning Times Executive Editor Eric Siegel made the cut. Listen to his appearances on Walter Isaacson’s (“Steve Jobs” and “The Innovators”) podcast. Podcast: Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson. The program has over...

ChapGPT Doesn’t “Know” But It Can Tell

  Polanyi’s paradox, named in honor of the philosopher and polymath Michael Polanyi, states, “we know more than we can tell.” He means that most of our knowledge is tacit and cannot be easily formalized with...

Users’ Interests are Multi-Faceted: Recommendation Models Should Be Too

 Originally published in Spotify Research, Feb 22, 2023. A new approach to calibrating recommendations to user interests Users’ interests are multi-faceted and representing different aspects of users’ interest in their recommendations is an important factor for recommender...

What’s a “Listening Personality”?

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