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AI Business / AI in Medicine / AI Projects / Applied AI / Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Product Management / ROI January 6, 2022
If 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 Projects / AI Systems / Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / ROI September 19, 2021
I 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 Companies / AI Projects / AI Systems / Applied AI / Artificial Intelligence / ROI July 30, 2021
I 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
What 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 […]