Category: Data

  • How Specificity Increases AI Hallucinations – And How to Stop It

    The more specific a piece of data, the less useful it is in forecasting. This is a maxim of predictive analytics. Predicting audience behaviors based on the year they were born is useful. Predicting audience behaviors based on individuals’ exact birthdays is not useful. Which is why, in OpenAI’s newest paper on hallucination in generative…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Risks Of Connecting AI To Files?

    Summary In today's episode, I examine the dangers of connecting generative AI tools to your file systems. Here's what this means for you. You safeguard your most important documents by establishing strict access boundaries. You'll also learn these concepts: how to implement isolated sandboxes, why you should use file copies for testing, and how to…

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  • The Critical Question Every Data Analyst Must Ask About Generative AI

    When it comes to reporting with data, especially quantitative data, in generative AI, you have to answer a critical question: Are we using the data for the report, or in the report? This seemingly pedantic question is vitally important. Will the data be used in the report itself, or will the data be used to…

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  • Why Web Traffic Data Fails to Show Real AI Adoption (And What to Do Instead)

    Web traffic is a poor measure of AI adoption. There are tons and tons of infographics floating around proclaiming the top tools in generative AI based on estimated web traffic data, most notably from A16z but also from many others. This is a very, very poor measure of AI adoption because it excludes a ton…

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  • Who Owns Your AI Agents? The Critical Employment Question for the Future of Work

    Dharmesh: Today: BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Tomorrow: BYOA (Bring Your Own Agents) More and more people will be building their own agents to increase their personal productivity. And, they will take that “team” with them to their next job. I can also imagine a day where companies will gravitate towards hiring people that have…

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  • Is Your Company Profiting From Cuts or Growing Through Innovation?

    “Consumer spending isn’t driving company profits as much as reducing expenses and improving efficiency. That could be a problem.” writes the Wall Street Journal about this season’s earnings reports. Gee, you think? Anyone who’s spent more than a week in an Econ 101 class learned that you cannot cut your way to growth, and “lean…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How to Summarize URLs With AI?

    Summary In today's episode, I explain how to use AI to transform a raw list of URLs into a human-readable format that includes summaries and titles. Here's what this means for you. You can automate the tedious task of manual browsing to create enriched datasets with ease. You'll also learn these concepts: why the ChatGPT…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How to Protect Your IP With AI?

    Summary In today's episode, I discuss the strategies for protecting intellectual property when using generative AI. Here's what this means for you. You can integrate cutting-edge AI into your workflow without risking the exposure of sensitive company data. You'll also learn these concepts: how to audit terms of service, why free AI tools pose significant…

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  • So What? The AI-Ready Data Quality Audit

    Summary In today's episode, I walk through the AI-ready data quality audit, covering the three levels of data quality assessment, the 6C Data Quality Audit Framework, and why AI systems fail without high-quality data. Here's what this means for you. You'll gain a practical diagnostic approach to catch small data issues before they compound into…

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  • The 3 Critical Meta Skills You Need to Thrive in an AI-Driven World

    At a private company workshop yesterday (I do those btw), one of the attendees asked a very salient question: “given how much AI is taking over individual tasks, what are the meta skills that people need to have to succeed in an AI first world?” The answer for this is simple but not easy. I…

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