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What Are a Few AI Research Labs on the West Coast?

Academic Research Conferences Featured Post Opinion Research Research West 2019posted by Alex Landa, ODSC August 13, 2019

Artificial Intelligence is still a nascent technology; much of the groundbreaking work moving the industry forward is done inside AI research labs. It’s often from those labs that open source projects are started. Institutes like Open AI, NASA’s JPL, Google Deepmind, MIT CSAIL, BAIR, The Turing Institute, and Max... Read more

Is AI the Future of Digital Influencers?

Accelerate AI Featured Post Opinionposted by Ava Burcham August 9, 2019

The term “influencer” has been populating the digital sphere for a long time now, and so far, it has gone largely undefined. As we know it, an influencer can be anyone that holds influence over their audience, community, or platform. Celebrities, politicians, models were the original ones; then came... Read more

Scaling Humans With AI

Accelerate AI Conferences Opinion West 2018posted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC August 1, 2019

One of the most persistent problems within many fields is the lack of communication. We have access to vast amounts of data, but all that information is siloed. You have so many different systems and hundreds of ways to access various pieces of data, but nothing really communicates. AI... Read more

Why Effective and Ethical AI Needs Human-Centered Design

Accelerate AI Conferences Opinion Ethics West 2018posted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC July 29, 2019

Data science is about a half-century old in the way we think of it now, but with the advent of AI, we’re reaching a precipice of how we want to model our AI initiatives. Moving forward with not just effective but ethical AI, we need a human-centered design principle.... Read more

Why Do Businesses Need a Data (and AI) Manifesto?

Accelerate AI Opinion DataOps Privacyposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC July 1, 2019

50 years ago, the concept of privacy meant disappearing. You built a wall around your private data, and it was pretty easy to keep that wall secure. Aside from governmental intrusion, you didn’t have to worry much about constant feeds of data streaming from your daily activities into the... Read more

AI Ethics: Avoiding Our Big Questions

Accelerate AI Featured Post Opinion Ethicsposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC June 21, 2019

A lot of discussion over AI is hyperbolic comparisons to the Terminator. While this isn’t helpful to the discussion, addressing ethics concerns with bigger, faster AI on the horizon is a necessary part of development. Instead of willful ethics violations, we may have more trouble with ignoring the potential... Read more

AI and the Visual Revolution

Featured Post Opinion Uncategorized visual searchposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC June 20, 2019

We’ve focused a lot on what AI can do for language processing, but one aspect of AI that’s gaining speed is visual. So much of our data is visual, so using these AI models to parse and work with visual media is a crucial aspect of decoding our big... Read more

6 Unique GANs Use Cases

Featured Post Opinion GANsposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC June 4, 2019

Generative Adversarial Networks are transforming what we’re able to do with neural networks, and it’s unfortunate that almost all the press goes to those wildly accurate facial constructions like that of This Person Does Not Exist. GANs have some incredible potential so let’s take a look at some really... Read more

Why The New Era of Big Data Requires Innovative Privacy Initiatives

Conferences Opinion odsc east Privacyposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC May 20, 2019

“Data can either be useful or perfectly anonymous but never both.” – Paul Ohm Privacy and data collection go together like peanut butter and jelly, but in the world of big data, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to work with anonymous data without crossing a privacy line. So what’s a... Read more

Data Scientists Versus Statisticians

Featured Post Opinionposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC April 25, 2019

Ever since the term “data scientist” came onto the tech scene, there’s been a cross-generational debate raging, attempting to define and distinguish newly branded data scientists and traditional statisticians. I personally adopted the data scientist title around 2012, and I recall a rather pithy definition float across the Twittersphere... Read more