Making Friends with AI

How to mess up testing your AI system

Avoiding the classic data science newbie mistake

Cassie Kozyrkov
8 min readJul 31, 2022

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A great way to keep your wits about you when working with machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) is to think like a teacher. After all, the point of ML/AI is that you’re getting your (machine) student to learn a task by giving examples instead of explicit instructions.

As any teacher will remind you: if you want to teach with examples, the examples must be good. The more complicated…

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