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AI Business / AI in Medicine / AI Projects / Applied AI / Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Product Management / ROI January 6, 2022
READ MOREIf you’ve been reading my posts so far, you’ve probably learned solidly that AI models become useful when they leave the lab and become part of a deployed system, where they are integrated into business software and processes. So, say you’ve done that. You built your model. You improved your accuracy and demonstrated that it’s high […]
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AI Business / AI in Medicine / AI Projects / AI Systems / Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning November 8, 2021
READ MOREWhen I talk with AI entrepreneurs, I often ask, “How good does the AI need to be, to be useful in your application? What actually is the quality bar?”[1]Note that in this article, I use the word “quality” as synonymous with “accuracy”, as opposed to the more general usage of “quality” in software development, which can […]
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AI Projects / AI Systems / Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / ROI September 19, 2021
READ MOREI wrote earlier about the importance of asking yourself some foundational questions about what alternatives your solution is competing with. I also wrote more specifically about competition with human / manual solutions, and about how it’s a good idea to seek the optimal mixture of AI, more traditional tech, and human beings. Sometimes, as it […]
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AI Business / AI Projects / AI Systems / Diversity / Intelligence Amplification / Teams July 30, 2021
READ MOREHere is my advice to CEOs about AI. Much of what you already know as a leader can be translated into the introduction of an AI “team member”. You know: How to build and manage teams The value of diverse teams for improved decision making and productivity The need for continuous and thoughtful team redesign, […]
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AI Business / AI Companies / AI Projects / AI Systems / Applied AI / Artificial Intelligence / ROI July 30, 2021
READ MOREI see it all the time. A brilliant and passionate team contacts me for advice or investment. They’ve conceptualized an amazing fully automated AI system that will (eventually) solve a customer’s problem. And it’s really hard to do and it’s going to be very expensive in terms of time and money but, the team is […]
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AI Business / AI Projects / Artificial Intelligence / Book / Machine Learning July 19, 2021
READ MOREWhat does it take to make an AI project successful? Considering their high failure rate, it’s a mistake to jump in too quickly without asking this question. I see success factors in four categories: Data, Domain knowledge, Technology, and Team. Most data scientists are taught disproportionately about technology, with little emphasis on the other three […]
