{"id":13533,"date":"2024-06-02T17:30:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T21:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=13533"},"modified":"2024-06-02T19:30:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T23:30:29","slug":"ai-success-depends-on-how-you-choose-this-one-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/ai-success-depends-on-how-you-choose-this-one-number\/13533\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Success Depends On How You Choose This One Number"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in Forbes, March 25, 2024. To do its job, AI needs your help. It has the potential to drive millions of operational decisions\u2014such as whom to contact, approve, investigate, incarcerate, set up on a date or medicate. But there&#8217;s a critical project step that\u2019s often overlooked: Choosing the decision threshold, a single number that differentiates the yeses from the nos. For example, market only to those customers more than 30% likely to buy. Or approve only those credit applicants more than 95% likely to repay. Setting the decision threshold represents a strategic business choice, not a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/ai-success-depends-on-how-you-choose-this-one-number\/13533\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in Forbes, March 25, 2024. To do its job, AI needs your help. It has the potential to drive millions of operational decisions\u2014such as whom to contact, approve, investigate, incarcerate, set up on a date or medicate. But there&#8217;s a critical project step that\u2019s often overlooked: Choosing the decision threshold, a single number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leading-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13533"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13540,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13533\/revisions\/13540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}