Machine learning sounds cool, but is it useful? In our conversations, we tackle this question. Join us as we think out loud about machine learning in mobile apps, machine learning in the news and much more!
Google Launches New Pixel Phone with ML Front and Center
Google launched two new products today — Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 pro. Center stage at this launch was artificial intelligence and machine learning used to make smartphones more personal. Google is setting the bar high for the use of ML in apps and mobile features.
14 Oct 2021
Amazon's Alexa Announcement
Among the many new announcements at Amazon’s recent fall event was an exciting update that provides a window into the future of machine learning technology (https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/28/alexas-new-features-will-let-users-personalize-the-a-i-to-their-own-needs/amp/?__twitter_impression=true). By now consumers are well aware of voice assistants, and Amazon’s Alexa leads the market. In fact, roughly one-in-four US adults owns a smart speaker, with 70-75% of that market share estimated to be captured by Amazon. This makes smart speakers in general, and Alexa in particular, one of the most recognizable and regular interactions that the average consumer has with machine learning technology. Machine learning is core to Alexa’s ability to understand natural language requests that are made by the user, and to predict how to most accurately respond to those requests.
14 Oct 2021
How ML Can and Does Improve Robinhood
Robinhood is an American based FinTech company founded in 2013 with the mission to democratize access to public markets. With over 31 million users and 5000 stocks offered, it is a data rich platform. In fact, Robinhood publicly states, “Insights from data power most decisions at Robinhood.”
In this episode we talk a lot about machine learning for financial risk detection and how to help new users become more informed investors.
14 Oct 2021
Is Machine Learning the Future of Cybersecurity?
Some of our most valuable assets live online. From bank information to the entire infrastructure of online businesses. This makes data breaches an incredibly serious violation. As high profile data breaches make headlines, including Twitch (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58817658) most recently and even the U.S. government back in December, more companies are using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to address cybersecurity concerns. One example is Darktrace (https://www.darktrace.com/en/), a company that uses AI to identify cyber threats as early as possible.
14 Oct 2021
What Role Does AI Play in the Music Industry?
DJ Mag is in the midst of publishing a series on the future of music and the influence AI is having on the industry (https://djmag.com/longreads/ai-futures-how-artificial-intelligence-will-shape-music-production). It’s a fascinating look inside one of the many sectors of our economy that is being reimagined with the help of machine learning, and- because of the innately creative quality to this particular industry- it especially highlights questions about the relationship between humans and machines.
14 Oct 2021
Are Biased Algorithms Even Preventable?
Technology promises a wide range of efficiencies; one of the most promising and yet elusive is the removal of human bias from decision making. A recent paper (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3939384) published by New York University (NYU) researchers presents a glimmer of hope for a less biased future. The study found that during Covid-19, “the majority of Black borrowers who received aid from the $800 billion relief program got their loan from a financial technology company, not a bank.” The study explains that fin-tech companies and large banks that employed algorithms and automation demonstrated higher rates of loan approvals for Black borrowers compared to small banks not using the technology.
12 Oct 2021
$50M for More AI in Customer Support
Customer service and support has been transformed by technology, and analysts predict (https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2021-08-16-gartner-says-customer-service-to-significantly-increa) it will experience even greater change in the coming years as it invests in and embraces artificial intelligence. That prediction took a big step closer to reality this week when SupportLogic announced they had raised an additional $50 million to help expand their AI-powered customer support platform offering. (https://venturebeat.com/2021/10/12/ai-powered-customer-service-analytics-platform-supportlogic-nabs-50m/)
6 Oct 2021
Facebook in the News
It’s been a bad few weeks for Facebook, starting with a massive trove of leaked internal documents and culminating most recently in a multi-hour service outage, as well as a 60 Minutes interview and US Senate testimony by a company whistleblower. The whistleblower, Frances Haugen, was a product manager at Facebook, and has provided documents and other evidence to journalists and Congress that paint an incredibly unflattering picture of the company.
In this episode we talk about Facebook's latest challenges and the integral role machine learning plays in making Facebook what it is today.
5 Oct 2021
Ideas for Improving the NYT App with Machine Learning
In today’s episode, we talked about ways to improve the New York Times app with machine learning. While NYT is one of the largest, most successful news outlets in the world it is not immune to the changing nature of news distribution.
In this conversation, we highlight ways that news outlets can stand up and thrive against the changing publishing world using machine learning.
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