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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...

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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 ecommerce mainstay evolve into what he calls an AI-first company. The December launch of eBay’s proprietary AI-based

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...

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...

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...

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