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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...

Industry News

Early Thoughts on Regulating Generative AI Like ChatGPT

 Originally published in Brookings, Feb 21, 2023. With OpenAI’s ChatGPT now a constant presence both on social media and in the news, generative artificial intelligence (AI) models have taken hold of the public’s imagination. Policymakers have taken note too, with statements from Members addressing risks and AI-generated text read on the floor of the House of Representatives. While

Blueprints for Recommender System Architectures: 10th Anniversary Edition

 Originally published in Amatriain, Jan 29, 2023. Ten years ago, we published a post in the Netflix tech blog explaining our three-tier architectural approach to building recommender systems (see below). A lot has happened in the last 10 years...

Unleashing ML Innovation at Spotify with Ray

 Originally published in Spotify R&D Engineering, Feb 1, 2023. Introduction As the field of machine learning (ML) continues to evolve and its impact on society and various aspects of our lives grows, it is becoming increasingly important...

CNET Found Errors in More Than Half Of Its AI-Written Stories

 Originally published in The Verge, Jan 25, 2023.  The tech news site came under scrutiny this month after it was reported the outlet was using AI to write articles. Last week, executives said the use of the...

Musk Oversaw Video That Exaggerated Tesla’s Self-Driving Capabilities

 Originally published in Bloomberg.com, Jan 19, 2023. Emails shed new light on CEO’s involvement in 2016 demo.  Carmaker faces probes, claims on how it’s marketed its tech. Elon Musk oversaw the creation of a 2016 video that exaggerated the...

OpenAI’s Attempts to Watermark AI Text Hit Limits

 Originally published in TechCrunch, Dec 22, 2022. It’s proving tough to rein in systems like ChatGPT. Did a human write that, or ChatGPT? It can be hard to tell — perhaps too hard, its creator OpenAI thinks, which is...

As NYC Public Schools Block ChatGPT, OpenAI Says It’s Working on ‘Mitigations’ to Help Spot ChatGPT-Generated Text

 Originally published in TechCrunch, Jan 5, 2023. New York City public schools have restricted access to ChatGPT, the AI system that can generate text on a range of subjects and in various styles, on school networks and devices....

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 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...

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