How to Set AI Goals
AI Benefits and Stakeholders AI is a field where value, in the form of outcomes and their resulting benefits, is created by machines exhibiting the ability to learn and “understand,”…
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Why Best-of-Breed is a Better Choice than All-in-One Platforms for Data Science
So you need to redesign your company’s data infrastructure. Do you buy a solution from a big integration company like IBM, Cloudera, or Amazon? Do you engage many small startups,…
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Bringing an AI Product to Market
The Core Responsibilities of the AI Product Manager Product Managers are responsible for the successful development, testing, release, and adoption of a product, and for leading the team that implements…
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Automated Coding and the Future of Programming
At Microsoft’s Build conference, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott talked about an experimental project in which an AI, trained on code in GitHub, actually creates programs: it generates function bodies based…
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Reclaiming the stories that algorithms tell
Algorithms tell stories about who people are. The first story an algorithm told about me was that my life was in danger. It was 7:53 pm on a clear Monday…
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What to Do When AI Fails
These are unprecedented times, at least by information age standards. Much of the U.S. economy has ground to a halt, and social norms about our data and our privacy have…
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Practical Skills for The AI Product Manager
In our previous article, What You Need to Know About Product Management for AI, we discussed the need for an AI Product Manager. This role includes everything a traditional PM…
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When models are everywhere
You probably interact with fifty to a hundred machine learning products every day, from your social media feeds and YouTube recommendations to your email spam filter and the updates that…
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How data privacy leader Apple found itself in a data ethics catastrophe
Three months ago, Apple released a new credit card in partnership with Goldman Sachs that aimed to disrupt the highly regulated world of consumer finance. However, a well-known software developer…
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What you need to know about product management for AI
Edit note: The increasing push to adopt AI into product, across many industries, puts the intersection of AI and product management into sharp focus. Challenges abound: non-deterministic outcomes, uncertainty (schedule,…
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