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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 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 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 […]