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Fundamentals of systems engineering

Fundamentals of systems engineering

Update: 2023-08-23
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Episode 6. What does systems engineering have to do with AI fundamentals? In this episode, the team discusses what data and computer science as professions can learn from systems engineering, and how the methods and mindset of the latter can boost the quality of AI-based innovations.

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  •  News and episode commentary 0:03
    • ChatGPT usage is down for the second straight month.
    • The importance of understanding the data and how it affects the quality of synthetic data for non-tabular use cases like text. (Episode 5, Synthetic data)
    • Business decisions. The 2012 case of Target using algorithms in their advertising. (CIO,  June 2023)
  • Systems engineering thinking. 3:45
  • Learning the hard way. 9:25
  • What is a safer model to build? 14:26
    • What is a safer model, and how is systems engineering going to fit in with this world?
    • The data science hacker culture can be counterintuitive to this approach 
    • For example, actuaries have a professional code of ethics and a set way that they learn.
  • Step back and review your model. 18:26
    • Peer review your model and see if they can break it and stress-test it. Build monitoring around knowing where the fault points are and also talk to business leaders.
    • Be careful about the other impacts that can have on the business or externally on the people who start using it.
    • Marketing this type of engineering as robustness of the model, identifying what it is good at and what it's bad at, and that in itself can be a piece of selling.
    • Systems thinking gives a chance to create lasting models

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Fundamentals of systems engineering

Fundamentals of systems engineering

Dr. Andrew Clark & Sid Mangalik