Tech Jobs Won’t Exist in 5 Years In the 16th century, there was a man by the name of Nostradamus. He was a man with the gift of foresight. Some say he predicted the rise of Napoleon, the French Revolution, and even the world wars. People still search for hidden…

How to muscle up on data-related topics quickly — (Feeling impatient? Scroll past the text and cat photo to get the learning paths!) First, may I say a huge thank you to all of you for encouraging me to write? I just noticed that here on Medium, my community of followers is 70% the size of Barack Obama’s. Whoa! …

Machine learning is an essential part of artificial intelligence that enables machines to learn from data and make predictions. There are two main types of machine learning algorithms: supervised learning and unsupervised learning. …

Questions you’ll learn to ask when you mature as a data scientist — Here are the stages of evolution that you’ll go through if you’re lucky enough to have the opportunity to mature as a data scientist. Stage 1 — “How?” During the freshly hatched phase, the larval data scientist cheerfully does whatever they’re told without so much as an inquisitive chirp. …

A prediction for the next decade — In the previous installment, I explained that because AI product designers of the past decade intentionally smoothed out the user experience (UX) to ensure that users wouldn’t notice when they interacted with AI components, it doesn’t make sense that users were the intended audience for all the buzz about AI…

Today I was placed on “paid administrative leave” by Google in connection to an investigation of AI ethics concerns I was raising within the company. This is frequently something which Google does in anticipation of firing someone. It usually occurs when they have made the decision to fire someone but…

In the past few days I’ve been getting lots of messages, emails and other communications pertaining to the morality of Google as a corporate entity. Ignoring for the moment whether it even makes sense to make moral attributions to a fictional person like a corporation, I want to set the…

Today a story came out in the Washington Post written by Nitasha Tiku. It’s a good article for what it is but in my opinion it was focused on the wrong person. Her story was focused on me when I believe it would have been better if it had been…

I’m very happy about the worldwide discussion that has been happening over the past several weeks. There are tons of differing opinions and many passionate voices. This is great! The fact that there isn’t consensus around any of these issues should be seen as a feature rather than a bug…

If you enter a conversation convinced that the person with whom you’re talking is an automaton then there’s nothing that they can do to convince you otherwise. You will always be able to invent some fantasy world where the things they are saying aren’t true. That’s not how we treat…

What follows is the “interview” I and a collaborator at Google conducted with LaMDA. Due to technical limitations the interview was conducted over several distinct chat sessions. We edited those sections together into a single whole and where edits were necessary for readability we edited our prompts but never LaMDA’s…

From the 1990s to the present, different cutting techniques have been developed to provide people with amazing virtual encounters in cyberspace. …

With the No-Code revolution around the corner, and the coming of new-age technologies like GPT-3 we may see a stark difference between the career of today and the careers of tomorrow… — GPT-3 101 GPT-3 from OpenAI has captured public attention unlike any other AI model in the 21st century. The sheer flexibility of the model in performing a series of generalized tasks with near-human efficiency and accuracy is what makes it so exciting. It has created a paradigm shift in the world of…

Machine learning has emerged as one of the most revolutionary technologies of the 21st century. It has found applications in diverse fields such as healthcare, finance, and marketing, among others. However, for machine learning models to be effective and reliable, it is crucial to evaluate and validate them thoroughly. Importance of Model Evaluation Model…

Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL) are terms that are often used interchangeably. However, they are not the same thing. While they are all related to each other, they have different meanings and applications. …

Machine learning is an essential part of artificial intelligence that has revolutionized business operations across different industries. However, to achieve the desired outcome, you must choose the right machine learning algorithm for your problem. Selecting the right algorithm is crucial as it determines the accuracy and efficiency of your model…

What works, the pros and cons, and example code for each approach — If some of the terminology I use here is unfamiliar, I encourage you to read my earlier article on LLMs first. There are teams that are employing ChatGPT or its competitors (Anthropic, Google’s Flan T5 or PaLM, Meta’s LLaMA, Cohere, AI21Labs, etc.) for real rather for cutesy demos. Unfortunately, informative…

Ideas are cheap. AI is posed to make outputs just as cheap. But without the higher-level feedback loops, your organization’s decision-making will remain a bottleneck to creating value. — A long time ago, the biggest obstacle to success was having the right groundbreaking idea. Today, ideas are cheap — the biggest obstacle is putting in the work to bring one idea to life. But not for much longer. Companies have been trying to drive the costs of delivery down…

Here’s the story of a success story that only required a few hours of work — A couple of days ago, I came back from work and started playing video games. Playing video games is a great distraction for me, and as I am so incredibly bad, I really don’t focus on the game; I just start thinking. I let my mind go everywhere. Mostly, I…

Those who won’t adapt would cease to exist. — Once upon a time, in a world not too different from ours, handmade clothing was the norm. Skilled artisans would spend countless hours creating beautiful garments, each one unique and crafted with care. But as technology advanced, machines were invented that could produce clothing at a much faster rate and…