Posted 2/12/2024, 4:00:00 PM
ML Industry Overhypes Capabilities, Contributing to Failure to Launch Projects Beyond Modeling Stage
- ML industry promotes itself as AI, which tends to overstate capabilities and fetishize technology
- Vendors and consultants employ AI branding rather than clearly advertising what ML offers
- Hype contributes to failure to launch ML projects beyond modeling/number-crunching phase
- Self-driving cars a cautionary tale about dramatic underplanning for complex ML deployment
- Lack of comprehensive plan for impediments is why business leaders refuse to deploy ML models