From batshit crazy to informative but not yet human — In a memorable response to an audience question, John Vervaeke revealed in Thunder Bay that when you put two AI language models in a conversation, they go batshit crazy very fast! The concept fascinated me — it’s like a fresh take on the Turing test, where you watch two agents…

I think this is a fantastic read, thank you, Vincent, I'm using it in our experiments as we speak. At the same time, for publishing we do need to learn something general, beyond just the way you solved your specific problem. A set of simulators would be great to demonstrate…

Motivations and research themes — Joint work with the Huawei Paris Noah’s Ark team: Merwan Barlier, Igor Colin, Ludovic Dos Santos, Gabriel Hurtado, Cedric Malherbe, and Albert Thomas. What do we aim for? Our objective is to develop reinforcement learning autopilots which can be deployed by systems engineers within weeks of setting up the project. We will make the systems…

What are the crucial model properties and which model to choose? — Joint work with Gabriel Hurtado and Albert Thomas. This research is part of a broader theme to build AI autopilots for engineering systems. The corresponding research paper. Open source code to reproduce all our results. Video teaser. Context One of our main research objectives at the Noah’s Ark Lab in Huawei…

Start with y. Concentrate on formalizing the predictive problem, building the workflow, and turning it into production rather than optimizing your predictive model. Once the former is done, the latter is easy. — If you like the blog, check out this podcast on the same topic. There is no debate on how a well-functioning predictive workflow works when it is finally put into production. Data sources are transformed into a set of features or indicators X, describing each instance (client, piece of equipment…

A friend of mine asked me this question: is there really a market for a premium ML as a service, hundreds of data scientist thinking about features and ever more clever algorithms? Or big data will take over even our jobs since more data eventually trumps clever algorithms? The short…

Curricula for teaching machine learning have existed for decades and even more recent technical subjects (deep learning or big data architectures) have almost standard course outlines and linearized storylines. On the other hand, teaching support for the data science process has been elusive…

Authors’ comments (Akin Kazakçi, Mehdi Cherti, Balázs Kégl) Computational creativity has been gaining increased attention in the machine learning community and in the larger public. The wave started by the freaky psychedelic images of deep dream, generated by…

In a previous post, I examined the data science ecosystem with its actors, incentives, and challenges in the scientific world. Here I make an attempt to port this analysis to the industrial data science ecosystem. The two ecosystems and the motivations of their actors differ in several aspects so executives…