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How Are We Solving Inequality with AI?

Agriculture Automotive Business + Management Data Science for Good Education Featured Post Government Media Opinion AI Data Science for Good inequality solving inequality with aiposted by Ava Burcham, ODSC September 6, 2019

When people talk about artificial intelligence, they often praise it as an unemotional, efficient task manager, and, to an extent, that’s what it is. But when we think about it in bigger terms than Siri or Alexa, we can see real ways people are solving inequality... Read more

What do Popular Movies About AI Get Wrong?

Business + Management Featured Post Opinion AI ai in media ai movies moviesposted by Ava Burcham, ODSC August 23, 2019

AI has been a popular topic for movies and fascinated audiences for over 60 years. Hollywood hasn’t always gotten it right—in fact, most of the time, they’ve been totally off. What is it about artificial intelligence that entices directors? What are they missing when they create... Read more

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

Conferences Data Science Academic Research 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... Read more

Digital Influencers: Is AI the Future?

Business + Management Featured Post Opinionposted by Ava Burcham, ODSC 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... Read more

Scaling Humans With AI

Business + Management 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... Read more

Why Effective and Ethical AI Needs Human-Centered Design

Business + Management 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... Read more

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

Business + Management 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... Read more

AI Ethics: Avoiding Our Big Questions

Business + Management 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... Read more

AI and the Visual Revolution

Featured Post Opinion 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... 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... Read more