Data scientists consider business metrics more important than technical metrics – yet in practice they focus more on technical ones. This derails most projects. So, why? Eric Siegel Predictive AI offers tremendous potential – but it has a notoriously poor track record. Outside Big Tech and a handful of other leading companies, most initiatives fail…
Google plans to release an age assurance tool in the US that will assess whether an account is being used by a minor or an adult. On Thursday, the Mountain View-based tech giant announced that it will be releasing this algorithm-based tool to a small set of users in the US in the coming weeks….
President Trump included a seemingly ad hoc remark during his AI Summit speech about whether the AI … More phrase might need an upgrade. Getty Images In today’s column, I explore the ongoing saga of how the moniker “artificial intelligence” has been received over its approximately seventy-year history, including a recent offhand remark made by…
WeTransfer has issued a clarification that it will not use files uploaded by users to train artificial intelligence models, after users criticised the company’s changes to its terms of service. Earlier this month, the file transfer service updated its terms of service to state that WeTransfer could use AI to improve its content moderation and “reproduce,…