“Researchers are continually publishing effective AI models. Hardware is a commodity. But build the highest-quality proprietary dataset and you’ll crush the competition every time.” I had a day off and the electrician took down my power for the day so I had some much anticipated time on my hands. And just as any other geek…
Tag: deep learning
An executive’s guide to AI – McKinsey
One of the highest rated McKinsey articles of the year is titled, “An executive’s guide to AI.” It’s a quick overview including key elements and terminology. Artificial Intelligence AI is typically defined as the ability of a machine to perform cognitive functions we associate with human minds, such as perceiving, reasoning, learning, and problem solving….
Amazon has an AI vision and Rajeev Rastogi is shaping it
“Rastogi is the director of machine learning at Amazon India and has been ranked among one of the top 10 data scientists in India. The e-commerce giant is looking at putting artificial intelligence and ML at the heart of everything it does. According to Rastogi, the problems that AI and ML need to spar within India are…
Deep learning and local maximums for recommendation engines
I wouldn’t consider this “light reading” but it’s super interesting to understand and consider. “The clearest example of how that works is the increasingly ubiquitous recommendation engine. Almost every ecommerce site now lists other products that a visitor might be interested in while looking at an individual product. Figuring that those recommendations is an optimization…