{"id":7448,"date":"2024-02-06T07:11:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T07:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmoneyreview.com\/?p=7448"},"modified":"2024-04-04T07:14:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T07:14:22","slug":"bringing-ai-back-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmoneyreview.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/bringing-ai-back-to-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing AI back to earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excitement over the prospects for artificial intelligence (AI) has driven US stock market valuations to a historic high. Can AI technologies deliver on their promise? Or is this yet another case of irrational exuberance?<\/p>\n<p>In <em><a href=\"https:\/\/blubrry.com\/newmoneyreview\/130764503\/bringing-ai-back-to-earth\/\">the latest New Money Review podcast<\/a><\/em> I am joined by Eric Siegel, a former Columbia University professor who has taught computer science courses in machine learning and AI. Siegel, now a consultant, has just published a new book called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/9780262048903\/the-ai-playbook\/\">The AI Playbook\u2014Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7447\" src=\"https:\/\/newmoneyreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ES.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmoneyreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ES.jpg 400w, https:\/\/newmoneyreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ES-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newmoneyreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ES-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Eric Siegel<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blubrry.com\/newmoneyreview\/130764503\/bringing-ai-back-to-earth\/\">In the podcast<\/a>, we explore some of the paradoxes surrounding AI: why this tech tool with apparently unlimited greatest promise may be the hardest to use, and why computers promising us greater autonomy may in fact require more supervision.<\/p>\n<p>We cover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is artificial intelligence (AI) and what is machine learning (ML)?<\/li>\n<li>What is generative AI?<\/li>\n<li>What explains the current AI hype?<\/li>\n<li>How predictive analytics can improve organisations\u2019 performance<\/li>\n<li>Examples of successful machine learning in practice: UPS and credit scoring<\/li>\n<li>Why do so many ML projects fail to reach deployment?<\/li>\n<li>Why artificial general intelligence (AGI) is \u201cthe most compelling ghost story ever\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Why computers that seem more human-like may give us less autonomy<\/li>\n<li>What goals can ChatGPT reach and where does it fall short?<\/li>\n<li>Why AI hype may be costly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>In each thirty-minute episode, the New Money Review podcast brings you the best minds in the world of money&#8211;from economics to payments, technology, law, digital assets, crime and fraud. <a href=\"https:\/\/blubrry.com\/newmoneyreview\/\">Listen in<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excitement over the prospects for artificial intelligence (AI) has driven US stock market valuations to a historic high. 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