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In this O’Reilly Podcast, Rachel Roumeliotis, vice president of content strategy at O’Reilly Media, speaks with Atif Kureishy, global VP of emerging practices and artificial intelligence and deep learning at Teradata, a data and analytics company.  They discuss how enterprises are currently investing in artificial intelligence (AI), which industries are seeing the most impact, barriers to AI implementation, and future trends.

Atif Kureishy on How Enterprises are Investing in AI

In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Mark Hammond, founder and CEO of Bonsai, a startup at the forefront of developing AI systems in industrial settings. While many articles have been written about developments in computer vision, speech recognition, and autonomous vehicles, I’m particularly excited about near-term applications of AI to manufacturing, robotics, and industrial automation. In a recent post, I outlined practical applications of reinforcement learning (RL)—a type of machine learning now being used in AI systems. In particular, I described how companies like Bonsai are applying RL to manufacturing and industrial automation. As researchers explore new approaches for solving RL problems, I expect many of the first applications to be in industrial automation.

Machine Learning Needs Machine Teaching

As machine learning models get into the hands of more and more users, there's an increasing expectation that black box isn't good enough: users want to understand why the model made a given prediction, not just what the prediction itself is. This is motivating a lot of work into feature important and model interpretability tools, and one of the most exciting new ones is based on Shapley Values from game theory. In this episode, we'll explain what Shapley Values are and how they make a cool approach to feature importance for machine learning.

Game Theory for Model Interpretability: Shapley Values

Shapley values in machine learning are an interesting and useful enough innovation that we figured hey, why not do a two-parter? Our last episode focused on explaining what Shapley values are: they define a way of assigning credit for outcomes across several contributors, originally to understand how impactful different actors are in building coalitions (hence the game theory background) but now they're being cross-purposed for quantifying feature importance in machine learning models. This episode centers on the computational details that allow Shapley values to be approximated quickly, and a new package called SHAP that makes all this innovation accessible.

SHAP: Shapley Values in Machine Learning

In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Sharad Goel, assistant professor at Stanford, and his student Sam Corbett-Davies. They recently wrote a survey paper, “A Critical Review of Fair Machine Learning,” where they carefully examined the standard statistical tools used to check for fairness in machine learning models. It turns out that each of the standard approaches (anti-classification, classification parity, and calibration) has limitations, and their paper is a must-read tour through recent research in designing fair algorithms. We talked about their key findings, and, most importantly, I pressed them to list a few best practices that analysts and industrial data scientists might want to consider.

Why It's Hard to Design Fair Machine Learning Models

In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Jacob Ward, a Berggruen Fellow at Stanford University. Ward has an extensive background in journalism, mainly covering topics in science and technology, at National Geographic, Al Jazeera, Discovery Channel, BBC, Popular Science, and many other outlets. Most recently, he’s become interested in the interplay between research in psychology, decision-making, and AI systems. He’s in the process of writing a book on these topics, and was gracious enough to give an informal preview by way of this podcast conversation.

How Social Science Research Can Inform the Design of AI Systems

Are we currently experiencing a deep transformation in the concept of software unlike anything we’ve seen in the past 30 years? Peter Wang, the Co-Founder and CTO of Anaconda, the world’s most popular Python data science platform, thinks so. In this episode of In Context, he joins Kathryn Hume for a discussion of data-centric computing and how the data and operations that enable software are moving closer together.

You’ll learn about: 

•	How data and operations are moving closer together
•	The implications of this data-centric computing for data scientists and businesses alike

Episode 13: The Transformation of Software with Peter Wang

Episode 12: The Transformation of Software with Peter Wang

In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Forough Poursabzi-Sangdeh, a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New York City. Poursabzi works in the interdisciplinary area of interpretable and interactive machine learning. As models and algorithms become more widespread, many important considerations are becoming active research areas: fairness and bias, safety and reliability, security and privacy, and Poursabzi’s area of focus—explainability and interpretability.

ml.ethics

Ari Kamlani