AI/DS Column
The real risk isn’t the LLM’s words but the agent’s actions with your credentials Malicious images, pages, or files can hijack agents and trigger privileged workflows Treat agents as superusers: least privilege, gated tools, full logs, and human checks
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While founding a university (SIAI), I encountered a surprising reality—university rankings, like any evaluative system, are shaped by more than just academic performance. Factors such as institutional branding, media visibility, and methodological choices play a role in shaping how institutions are perceived and ranked. This has led to ongoing debates about how rankings should be structured and whether certain metrics introduce unintended biases.
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AI talks turned the table and become more pessimisticIt is just another correction of exorbitant optimism and realisation of AI's current capabilitiesAI can only help us to replace jobs in low noise data
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People following AI hype are mostly completely misinformedAI/Data Science is still limited to statistical methodsHype can only attract ignorance As a professor of AI/Data Science, I from time to time receive emails from a bunch of hyped followers claiming what they call 'recent AI' can solve things that I have been pessimistic. They usually think 'recent AI' is close to 'Artificial General Intelligence', which means the program learns by itself and it is beyond human intelligence level.
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One-variable analysis can lead to big errors, so you must always understand complex relationships between various variables. Data science is a model research project that finds complex relationships between various variables. Obsessing with one variable is a past way of thinking, and you need to improve your way of thinking in line with the era of big data. When providing data science speeches, when employees come in with wrong conclusions, or when I give external lectures, the point I always emphasize is not to do 'one-variable regression.'
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