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Known Unknowns: Designing Uncertainty Into the AI-Powered System

Modeling Artificial Intelligence odsc eastposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC May 14, 2019

Uncertainty may be a fearful state for many people, but for data scientists and developers training the next wave of AI, uncertainty may be a good thing. Designing uncertainty directly into the system could help AI focus on what experts need to leverage state of the art AI and... Read more

How Will AI Nudging Affect Our Privacy?

Accelerate AI Featured Post Artificial Intelligenceposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC March 18, 2019

When you want to influence behavior, but you don’t want to restrict freedom of choice, you might take advantage of something behavioral science calls “nudging.” While most of us believe that humans behave rationally, nudge theory believes that humans are often irrational, making decisions based on influence and priming.... Read more

6 Ways Businesses Can Incorporate AI Into Their Products

Accelerate AI Featured Post Accelerate AI Artificial Intelligenceposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC February 7, 2019

The buzz over AI is loud in business, but don’t jump on the bandwagon just yet. You need a thoughtful plan of action to avoid what those of us in education know as “tech fatigue,” or the implementation of tech initiatives with no real goal for ROI. Launching blindly... Read more

Is Texas Hold’em Poker the Newest Game AI has Defeated?

Modeling AI Artificial Intelligenceposted by Caspar Wylie, ODSC October 11, 2018

Experimenting with game ai is an excellent way to better our understanding of deep learning. In recent years, AI has famously become the best player in a number of games such as Go, Backgammon, and Chess. However, all these games are known to have perfect information. For each player,... Read more

Innovators and Regulators Collaborate on Book Tackling AI’s Black Box Problem

Tech Updates AI Artificial Intelligence black boxposted by Alex Detmering October 9, 2018

AI’s Biggest Compliance Hurdle If you’re in data science, machine learning, or AI, you’ve probably heard of the “black box” problem. In short, it is the regulatory and implementation barriers caused by the un-explainability of sophisticated AI. Why are sophisticated AI systems so hard to explain? Because, for the... Read more

The Importance of Explainable AI

Accelerate AI AI Artificial Intelligence explainable AIposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC September 6, 2018

AI algorithms can be trained to perform many disparate tasks, but these systems often are opaque and operate in a black box, meaning users don’t always know how decisions are being made. AI-powered systems, frequently using deep learning methods, can be given extraordinarily complex tasks and can make great... Read more

Can You Make Your System Smarter Than a 4th Grader? Using AI to Answer Questions

Conferences Modeling Artificial Intelligence ODSC East 2017posted by Jacquelyn Elias, ODSC September 5, 2018

You may be smarter than a fifth grader, but the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence is training its machines to be smarter than a fourth grader in science in the Aristo Project, an artificial intelligence-based question answering system. In his lecture at ODSC East 2017, Joel Grus, a research... Read more

Hype or Not? Some Perspective on OpenAI’s DotA 2 Bot

Accelerate AI Blog Deep Learning Artificial Intelligenceposted by Denny Britz August 22, 2017

See the Hacker News Discussion for additional context. Update (August 17th, 2017): OpenAI has published a blog post with more details about the bot. Almost everything of the post below still holds true, however. OpenAI’s post is sparse on technical details as they “not ready to talk about agent... Read more