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Accounting fraud is the manipulation or misstatement of a company’s financial statements to create an illusion of strong financial health. This type of fraud boosts investor or shareholder confidence—when in fact the company could be in poor financial health with liquidity or solvency issues. There are several ways of falsifying financial statements to paint a more rosy picture such as…

As artificial intelligence secures its position in the public sphere, consumers expect companies to use the maturing technology ethically and responsibly. Seventy percent of customers expect organizations to provide transparent and fair AI experiences, according to a recent Capgemini report. But as the technology’s popularity grows, a number of concerning examples have emerged of AI models operating with algorithmic bias.…

General David H. Patraeus grew up just down the road from the prestigious United States Military Academy and graduated from West Point in 1974. He spent nearly four decades in the U.S. Army and served in Haiti, Kuwait, and Bosnia before rising to the rank of general. Yet, despite all his military accomplishments, he notes that his experience attending Princeton,…

In an environment of increasing scrutiny, the need to deliver trusted AI has never been greater. However, many organizations don't implement any feedback loop to monitor and control their models after they’re out in production. It is becoming increasingly important to mitigate algorithmic bias to prevent discrimination in use cases such as facial recognition and loan lending. For instance, the New…

“Winning at 200mph” is the theme for DataRobot’s amazing and unique sponsorship of an Andretti Autosports Indy race car driven by Robert Megennis. The 12-city series of events ranged from the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida, to downtown Toronto, to Portland International Raceway, with the season coming to its end at the Long Beach Grand Prix. Throughout 2021, I went…

There’s a saying, “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.” Is there too much hype about AI or too much doomsaying? AI Hype In 2019, Utah struck a deal with Banjo, a threat detection firm selling AI services to process live traffic feeds, dispatch logs, and other data. Banjo claimed to use software that automatically detected…

Joshua Walker has quite a story. A graduate of Harvard and the University of Chicago Law School, he spent more than 15 years as an intellectual property attorney. He‘s the co-founder and executive director of CodeX, the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, and the author of On Legal AI, a pioneering effort to map the territory between AI and the…

DataRobot has long believed that to democratize machine learning (ML) on the path to Augmented Intelligence, any user must have seamless access to learning — for example, how to prepare, create, explore, deploy, monitor, and consume ML models. Those already familiar with the DataRobot experience are also familiar with our in-app documentation that makes it easy to keep up with…

Have you ever asked a simple question, then unexpectedly received a complex answer? In my experience, this happened most often when dealing with lawyers and academics, but more recently I’ve noticed the same behavior coming from data scientists. Sometimes I just want a quick and simple explanation! What was your most hated subject at school? An AP-AOL news poll found…