Originally published in Harvard Business Review, July 15, 2022. Ten years ago we published the article “Data Scientist: Sexiest Job of the 21st Century.” Most casual readers probably remember only the “sexiest” modifier — a comment on their demand in the marketplace. The role was relatively new at the time, but as more companies attempted to
Originally published in Nature, July 26, 2022. ‘Data leakage’ threatens the reliability of machine-learning use across disciplines, researchers warn. From biomedicine to political sciences, researchers increasingly use machine learning as a tool to make predictions on the...
Originally published in AdWeek, Aug 1, 2022. The brand is one of the first to rely on OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 art generator. Heinz tapped an artificial intelligence-powered art generator to create a clever demonstration of the ubiquity...
Originally published in MIT Technology Review, June 24, 2022. One of the godfathers of deep learning pulls together old ideas to sketch out a fresh path for AI, but raises as many questions as he answers. Around...
Originally published in Emerging Tech Brew, June 14, 2022. Since 2019, some Big Tech firms have implemented AI red teams to reveal shortcomings, biases, and security flaws. It was a snowy day in February, and Amanda Minnich...
Originally published in Nature.com, June 22, 2022. An international team of around 1,000 largely academic volunteers has tried to break big tech’s stranglehold on natural-language processing and reduce its harms. Trained with US$7-million-worth of publicly funded computing...
Originally published in Towards Data Science, June 16, 2022. DALL·E 2 is the newest AI model by OpenAI. If you’ve seen some of its creations and think they’re amazing, keep reading to understand why you’re totally right...
Originally published in Scientific American, June 6, 2022. A close look reveals that the newest systems, including DeepMind’s much-hyped Gato, are still stymied by the same old problems. To the average person, it must seem as if...
Originally published in MIT Management, May 26, 2022. Armed with scores of data, Spotify and Wayfair use machine learning algorithms to make customers happy. Here’s how. Whether you’re combing the online aisles at Wayfair to find a...
Originally published in Wired.com, May 5, 2022. OpenAI’s new system is adept at turning text into images. But researchers say it also reinforces stereotypes against women and people of color. MARCELO RINESI REMEMBERS what it was like to watch Jurassic...
