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Why You Must Twist Your Data Scientist’s Arm To Estimate AI’s Value
 Originally published in Forbes, June 11, 2024. If you’ve...
3 Ways Predictive AI Delivers More Value Than Generative AI
 Originally published in Forbes, March 4, 2024. Which kind...
AI Success Depends On How You Choose This One Number
 Originally published in Forbes, March 25, 2024. To do...
Elon Musk Predicts Artificial General Intelligence In 2 Years. Here’s Why That’s Hype
 Originally published in Forbes, April 10, 2024 When OpenAI’s...

Machine Learning Models

Models Are Rarely Deployed – an Industrywide Failure in ML Leadership (Poll Results)

  Originally published in KDnuggets. The latest KDnuggets poll reconfirms today’s dire industry buzz: Very few machine learning models actually get deployed. In this article, I’ll summarize the poll results and argue that this pervasive failure of ML projects comes from a lack of prudent leadership. I’ll also argue that MLops is not the fundamental

Machine Learning Models are Missing Contracts

 Why pretrained machine learning models are often unusable and irreproducible — and what we can do about it. Introduction A useful approach to designing software is through contracts. For every function in your codebase, you start by writing...

Guilty or Not Guilty: Weight of Evidence

 You have been invited to serve as a juror in a criminal related case. After hearing testimony, the presiding judge offers a summary of the proceeding. “Evaluate the evidence,” he declares. Whether it was an eyewitness account,...

Overcoming the Explainability Challenges of Machine Learning Models

 Some History Machine Learning Models, which have historically been referred to as predictive models, are not new. Any early practitioner in this field would emphasize that the two key deliverables of any model are as follows: its...