AI is mainstream and its applications are limitless; here is the AI forecast for 2017 from some of the experts in the industry. Source: AI Forecast for 2017

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“propose one possible taxonomy of what a data scientist does, in roughly chronological order: Obtain, Scrub, Explore, Model, and iNterpret” Source: dataists » A Taxonomy of Data Science

When it comes to fraud prevention, it is important to recognize that technology alone is insufficient. Fraud managers with years of experience fighting fraud can never be replaced by a machine, but a combination of the two entities can produce far better results. People dedicate their lives to committing fraud with the help of technology; […]

Today, nearly 45 percent of trading is done electronically, according to Coalition, a U.K. firm that tracks the industry. In addition to back-office clerical workers, on Wall Street machines are replacing a lot of highly paid people, too. Source: As Goldman Embraces Automation, Even the Masters of the Universe Are Threatened

A search engine can now respond to users with questions of its own. For example, a search for “truffles” on Amazon returns results, but also suggests “chocolate truffles” and “truffle oil” as alternative searches. Search engines can also interrupt users mid-query with suggestions and even instant answers (e.g., Google Instant). The ideal search engine is […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]