Originally published in Amazon Science, April 14, 2023. The requirement that at any given time, all customers see the same prices for the same products necessitates innovation in the design of A/B experiments. The prices of products in the Amazon Store reflect a range of factors, such as demand, seasonality, and general economic trends. Pricing
Originally published in QuantaMagazine, April 13, 2023. Despite the wild success of ChatGPT and other large language models, the artificial neural networks (ANNs) that underpin these systems might be on the wrong track. For one, ANNs are...
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,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Originally published in Shopify Engineering, Feb 8, 2023. A business’s taxes can be difficult to manage, especially in the United States. Tax laws are complicated and vary state-to-state, city-to-city, and product-to-product, further adding to the complexity. When...