AI: The snake oil of the 21st century

The tech industry today is full of fake products and false promises, from vapourware to over-egged promises of functionality. The crown jewel? AI snake oil. Read more

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It's not surprising that there have been many intersections of artificial intelligence and machine learning with the current coronavirus epidemic. AI and ML are very hot topics indeed, not least because they hold out the promise of sudden insights that wo... (more…)

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Ideas in statistics that have powered AI

Andrew Gelman, a statistics professor at Columbia, and Aki Vehtari, a computer science professor at Finland’s Aalto University, recently published a list of the most important statistical ideas in the last 50 years. Here, they break it down in easy-to-und... (more…)

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