February 2, 2020

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The missing piece

The missing piece

Why do businesses fail at machine learning despite its tremendous potential and the excitement it generates? Is the answer always in data, algorithms, and infrastructure, or is there a subtler problem? Will things improve in the near future? Cassie Kozyrkov shares lessons learned at Google and explains what they mean for applied data science.
Talk Title The missing piece
Speakers Cassie Kozyrkov (Google)
Conference Artificial Intelligence Conference
Conf Tag Put AI to Work
Location London, United Kingdom
Date October 9-11, 2018
URL Talk Page
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Video Talk Video

Why do businesses fail at machine learning despite its tremendous potential and the excitement it generates? Is the answer always in data, algorithms, and infrastructure, or is there a subtler problem? Will things improve in the near future? Cassie Kozyrkov shares lessons learned at Google and explains what they mean for applied data science.

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