Despite the fact that the AI field was born more than half a century ago, we've only recently in the last few years made monumental strides in advancing the artificial intelligence game. More specifically, we've started to transition from a model whereby AI assists humans to one whereby humans assist AI. While the difference sounds subtle, the shift empowers us [...]

One of key tenets of science (physics, chemistry, etc.), or at least the theoretical ideal of science, is reproducibility. Truly “scientific” results should not be accepted by the community unless they can be clearly reproduced and have undergone a peer review process. Of course, things get messy in practice for both academic scientists and data scientists, and many workflows employed [...]

LIAR, LIAR, WORDS ON FIRELast fall Noah Zandan, who is big on “quantified communication” posted a fun TED ED video about ways to spot liars using “communications theory.” He opens the video with a simple ABT about how lots of ways have been developed over the ages to detecting lying AND they all work to some extent BUT ultimately they [...]