Cassie Kozyrkov

Head of Decision Intelligence, Google. ❤️ Stats, ML/AI, data, puns, art, theatre, decision science. All views are my own.

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Getting started with AI? Start here!

Many teams try to start an applied AI project by diving into algorithms and data before figuring out desired outputs and objectives. Unfortunately, that’s like raising a puppy in a New York City apartment for a few years, then being surprised that it can’t herd sheep for you....

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Classification, regression, and prediction — what’s the difference?

The coarsest way to, ahem, classify supervised machine learning (ML) tasks is into classification versus prediction....

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The AI reliability paradox

Too good to fail? The surprising way a top-performing system can hurt you....

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3 signs your AI project is doomed

After consulting on hundreds of machine learning projects, I’ve learned to pay attention to early warning signs that the client is in danger of shooting themselves in the foot....