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Over and over I have seen two key reasons why analytics projects fail #1Business Context – AI strategy needs to align with Business Strategy. Not as a hammer in search of a nail. A long time ago, we attempted building out NLP models with text data – we tried it all, from Word2Vec to Google …
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should AI is evolving. And it is painting nails. My cousin who is on Instagram recently showed me a video of a robot manicurist An AI based system that uses ‘sophisticated algorithms which determine how the nozzle should move to deposit nail polish in the right places” Again, …
This person doesn’t exist. This image is created by a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) – essentially one that generates ‘hyperrealistic fake images of people who do not exist’ While I believe AI can be used for good, it is also hugely crucial we understand and are informed about how the tech can be as dangerously …
‘Can we build moral machines’? In an experiment, Alan Winfield showed “how a blue robot saved a red robot from walking into a “danger zone” by (gently) colliding with it. In another, two red robots were heading for danger zones and the blue robot can only save one—an ethical dilemma that endearingly caused it to …
We have been in scenarios where the Dev teams take actions to expedite delivery – prioritising for speed over perfect code. That is what is called “Tech Debt” While this oft could happen – making this a practise is what kills good teams. In the book, Superthinking, one of the mental models the authors talk …
How Short-termism and Technical Debt could kill good software teams Read More »
Have you seen Google‘s latest text-to-image generator Imagen? Its an AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text As the paper states, ‘ Imagen builds on the power of large transformer language models in understanding text and hinges on the strength of diffusion models in high-fidelity image generation’ ‘Human raters strongly prefer Imagen over other …
All the images you see here are generated by an AI system Read More »
What is the most useful article you have ever read? Sequoia Capital did a 39 part series spread out over a couple of years around ‘Data Informed Product Building’ It covers almost everything one can think of around how products evolve, defining product health, frameworks for success to pitfalls in diagnosing health and setting metrics. …
What happens when AI becomes sentient? Is AI really the evil force driving towards a dystopian future? “From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend watches the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. Klara remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose …
What if AI becomes sentient? A beautiful tale about a dystopian future Read More »
It’s always exciting to talk to students. And nostalgic too. I come away hopeful and enthused about the future of tech. In this free-wheeling conversation we discussed a gamut of themes – from understanding what analytics in real-life looks like, does everything require AI, how folks from PM/consulting backgrounds can add value to data science …
[Fire side Chat] – On Analytics, AI and the future of tech with IIM – Ahmedabad Read More »
A GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) was called out as the ‘most interesting idea in ML in the last 10 years’ Think of them as a model that can generate new content. It has 2 networks – a generator and a discriminator. The generator creates fake samples and tries to fool the discriminator into believing that …
GAN (Generative adversarial network)- Art and Anime Read More »