Category: Week3

The risks of AI: Reality or Science Fiction?

In his guest lecture about the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence, Craig Martell, Head of Science and Engineering at LinkedIn, pointed out that Artificial Intelligence is often presented in a wrong way. Scenarios in which machines get super intelligent and pose a serious risk to human beings seemed to be rather unlikely to him. This blog… Read more The risks of AI: Reality or Science Fiction?

The Need for Caution in Government Use of AI

To date, machine learning has been used primarily to determine product offerings: What movies should Netflix recommend its users? What products should Amazon recommend? However, certain tech companies are now marketing machine learning applications to governments and public agencies. For example, tech firm Predpol uses “real-time epidemic-type aftershock sequence crime forecasting” and historical crime data… Read more The Need for Caution in Government Use of AI

Government and Technology: Initiative to Move Old Infrastructures to Public Cloud

With a few exceptions, federal, state and local governments have not been considered the forefront of technology. This largely stems from very visible governmental agencies, such as the DMV and USPS, being notoriously inefficient. From this perspective, this week’s guest speaker, Richard Rogers, was particularly interesting, as very few people think of any government agencies… Read more Government and Technology: Initiative to Move Old Infrastructures to Public Cloud

Demystifying Quantum Computing

There are a lot of buzzwords in and around Silicon Valley these days – AI, machine learning, blockchain, crypto etc – but there’s one buzzword that could have a lasting impact on technology as a whole – quantum computing. The reason quantum computing is so exciting is because it’s a rare advance in hardware computing.… Read more Demystifying Quantum Computing

Online Voting: The Last Frontier of Digitalization?

  What has not been digitalized yet? Online shopping is becoming more popular and electronic books are common these days. In the business field, there are many buzz words such as “edtech”, ”fintech”, ”insurtech”, etc. which means that introducing new technology is the current trend. But some claim that digitalizing everything has a lot of… Read more Online Voting: The Last Frontier of Digitalization?

AI in the Workplace

In this week’s lecture, Craig Martel from LinkedIn said that there are several billion inputs used in LinkedIn’s job-matching algorithms. These algorithms can create immense value for both organizations and individuals, as each has a high incentive to find ideal matches. Thinking about the amount of investment placed on recruiting, I wondered if companies are… Read more AI in the Workplace

Detecting Phishing on the "Edge"

Last week I talked about how building software in 2004 was different than in 2018 in the context of an anti-phishing startup I co-founded at that time. This week I want to dive deeper into how we used machine learning. According to Craig Martell, head of a data science group at Linked In, the goal of… Read more Detecting Phishing on the "Edge"

Why Siri sucks (and will continue to suck)

In class we discussed trends in AI, and had some incredible speakers who diffused several myths.  In this blog, I will take on why Siri….. well…. sucks. Some critics think that Apple is too large, and thus is not able to innovate new products and services. The notoriously lagging performance of Siri is a perfect example… Read more Why Siri sucks (and will continue to suck)

Surveillance camera and face recognition

As one of the most popular application area of deep learning, image recognition application like face recognition becomes more and more common in daily life. Some interesting applications of face recognition include identity confirming for financial apps on phones and clock in system. Also, the technique has been embedded in many newly introduced smart cameras… Read more Surveillance camera and face recognition

Deep Learning: The best "new" technique from the 20th century

If you look anywhere in Silicon Valley and many places around the world, it is hard to avoid the poster child that is artificial intelligence. There is good reason for the hype. The techniques that fall under the umbrella that is artificial intelligence (AI) have been able to do some incredible things. As a child I watched a… Read more Deep Learning: The best "new" technique from the 20th century