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From MIT Technology Review: This is how AI bias really happens – and why it’s so hard to fix
Bias can creep in at many stages of the deep-learning process, and the standard practices in computer science aren’t designed to detect it. This article discusses how AI bias happens, why it’s hard to fix, and where we go from here.
From OpenAI: Faulty reward functions in the wild
Reinforcement learning algorithms can break in surprising, counterintuitive ways. This post explores one failure mode, where the reward function is misspecified and resulted in the reinforcement learning agent learning how it could beat humans by 20% when it cheated and didn’t even finish the race.
From Glassdoor: How much does a data scientist intern make?
Salary, additional cash compensation, open jobs, historical salary paid by selected companies, and more.
From Glassdoor: How much does a junior data scientist make?
Salary, additional cash compensation, open jobs, historical salary paid by selected companies, and more.
From Paysa: How much does a data scientist make?
For salary info, best paying companies, best paying cities, required skills and education and much more.
From Springboard: Real talk with an Instagram data scientist
A structured and highly informative video about what it’s like to be a data scientist and how to become one. 850,000 views.
From Joma Tech: What really is data science? Told by a data scientist.
A deep dive into what data science is in a IRL, engaging and conversational manner. About 1,400,000 views.
From Chevron: a day in the life of a data scientist
A short video that steps through the average day in the life of a data scientist at a non Silicon Valley company. 100,000 views.
Best on the Internet: The Alan Turing Institute
The Alan Turing Institute is the national institute for the UK’s data science and artificial intelligence, with headquarters at the British Library.
From the Alan Turing Institute: What is data science?
What is AI and why should we care from the perspective of The Alan Turing Institute and social scientists, mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists, engineers, and industry and government thinkers.