Learn How to Apply Machine Learning to Your Digital Marketing Strategy
As a digital marketer, have you ever created a spreadsheet containing the individual purchase history of all consumers searching for a product in your category, the time of day they’re most likely to purchase, the type of device they’re using when they last made a purchase, their location when they made that purchase, numerically calculated […]
Are Machines Taking Over The Space?
By Faye Flam People concerned about robots taking away jobs might want to consider where it’s already happened. Machines with varying levels of intelligence have quietly taken over the most glamorous, coveted and admirable job in the world — space exploration. It’s not that people can’t still be astronauts — it’s just there aren’t nearly enough jobs for all the […]
Here’s The Highly Divisive Argument For Why Computers Will Never Truly Understand Anything
The Famous Chinese Room Thought Experiment Imagine that a non Chinese speaker was led into a room full of Chinese symbols, together with a book of intricate rules as to how to manipulate those symbols. Then, someone from outside the room would pass him a series of Chinese symbols, and following the rule book, he […]
10 Things Everyone Should Know About Machine Learning
As someone who often finds himself explaining machine learning to non-experts, I offer the following list as a public service announcement. Machine learning means learning from data; AI is a buzzword.Machine learning lives up to the hype: there are an incredible number of problems that you can solve by providing the right training data to the […]
Making Sense of The Different Types of Artificial Intelligence Companies
As a Data Science grad from NYU and a VC analyst, I’m lucky to get to see and evaluate a lot of startups that are involved with AI (note: this term has some baggage. For the purposes of this post, I use AI and ML interchangeably to make things simpler). Heck, I’ve seen AI applied […]