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AI in Medicine / Applied AI / Robotics / Uncanny Valley March 24, 2022
Most of us think that improving quality or capability of an AI system makes it incrementally (or at least monotonically) better for the users. However, just like computer graphics and robotics, there can be an uncanny valley for AI systems. As artificial faces get more realistic, people are happier, but there is an uncanny valley where faces get to a point that is close to realistic but not…quite. Faces look “eerie” or […]
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AI Capabilities / AI in Medicine / AI Model / AI Systems January 6, 2022
“As a rule of thumb, you’ll spend a few months getting to 80% and something between a few years and eternity getting the last 20%.” Chris Dixon in “The idea maze for AI startups” It may seem obvious to some—but bears repeating for others—that our AI product needs to satisfy our customers’ needs to be […]
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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 in Medicine / AI Systems / Applied AI / Artificial Intelligence / Intelligence Amplification / Machine Learning August 13, 2021
Should companies base AI systems on knowledge or data? The answer may surprise you: the best AI systems today use both. If you’ve come to AI in recent years, you might be surprised to learn that early AI applications were almost exclusively logic-based: models were built from facts and rules, not learned from data. MYCIN […]
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AI Capabilities / AI Systems / Artificial Intelligence / Big Data / Machine Learning August 12, 2021
Getting the right data—and getting the data right—is essential for good AI accuracy, whether that data is collected before or during system deployment. Obtaining Data Obtaining data to train your AI system may seem like a straightforward task, but there are some hidden gotchas. Consider a company I’ll call WebLeads. It set out to create the […]
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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 […]