Reading the Robot Mind

Will Your Career Involve AI? I think everyone's career will be impacted by Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Analytics. I would love to see more exposure to modern Data Analytics for every degree major at the university where I teach, so I have been experimenting with it over the past few months. First, let me toot my own horn... I am very proud to announce that the Kaggle team over at Google has given me the designation of machine learning software "Kernel Expert." This is a ranking given to very few people and is quite an honor because I am currently ranked 271st out of 89,986 people who are given such a ranking (top 1%) and that is out of more than 1,000,000 Kaggle participants, most of whom are not ranked. What about you? Bragging aside - It only took me 10 months, and it was soooo easy to get started! You should definitely take a look at Kaggle, and at a bare minimum, search the "Kernels" for "your career name" and see what work ...

Reading the Robot Mind: - How to Avoid the Michigan Unemployment Fiasco It used to be that only human experts examined data and made decisions. Now Artificial Intelligence (AI) is enabling robotic decision making in an ever-widening variety of applications. As society allows this to happen, there is a greater likelihood that these robot decisions can affect people’s lives. The MiDAS System for Detecting Unemployment Fraud in the State of Michigan A poster-child for AI gone bad is the Michigan MiDAS unemployment fraud detection software. On September 17, 2013, the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency announced that it would be shutting down for 5 days to install a MiDAS software system that would update the aging automated response system[1]. What ensued was a fiasco of epic proportions that is still costing the state of Michigan millions of dollars. In this case, 34,000 people were falsely accused of unemployment fraud by this robot, and they are still trying to dig out of their...