The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Generative AI is playing out a movie we've seen before. But it's also carving a new path.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Generative AI is playing out a movie we've seen before. But it's also carving a new path.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: What happens when genAI meets the real world? It's not always pretty.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Every piece of genAI news will teach you something …
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Two years of Complex Machinery. And more to come.
What rogue traders can warn us about AI agent risks
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: The hunt for genAI use cases gets desperate. But they'll have a hundred years to pay it all off.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: genAI companies have been stress-testing their products in the real world. It doesn't always turn out well.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: The genAI hype wave has become a multi-trillion-dollar open mic night.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: A look back on Complex Machinery's 2025.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: GenAI companies are loading up on debt to support their theatrics.
Yes, you still need to develop your AI strategy
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Insurance, AI, and where the two won't meet.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: The meltdown of auto parts company First Brands may tell us about lurking problems in the genAI space.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Of AI browsers, circular deals, and token dealers
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: If AI is indeed a bubble, what happens after the crash?
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: genAI keeps digging a hole. Will it be able to climb out?
My talk from Data Behind the Scenes 2025
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: The key lesson from complex systems: when everything's connected, large players can pull others up and also drag them down.
Contrary to popular belief, AI is not a sure thing. That takes some getting used to.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Catching up on some end-of-summer AI news -- jugglers, thirst, risk, and more.
What the computerization of Wall Street can teach us about AI
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Why it's still too early to give genAI free reign in the company.
Exploring my favorite definitions of these terms
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Chasing momentum and Meta money
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: GenAI companies keep cooking up wild use cases. Here's how to spot the winners.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Hand-waving sometimes works, but sometimes it doesn't. Also: when people and machines write code.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: When AI chatbots tap into what makes us tick
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: On checking your genAI chatbot's work, and playing the blame game.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Our relationship with robots should be simple. Creepy, commercial GenAI has made it anything but.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: genAI breaks from the pack
Companies are taking on too little or too much risk with AI
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: A look into agentic AI's hazy present. And possible future improvements. With some ideas from algorithmic trading.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: genAI might be your best friend, but not always a good friend
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Machines, acting on incomplete information
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: TODO
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: What happens when AI's various costs dwindle?
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: What history tells us about giving things away for free.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Two competing pieces of AI news landed within a few days of each other. What does this mean for the space?
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: People buying AI live in the present. Those selling it live in the future.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Bots say the darndest things. Why do we keep learning this the hard way?
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: A subtle risk/reward tradeoff sheds light on AI product companies.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Human labor addresses the last mile in automated work.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Correcting an LLM after it's already out in the wild.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: when the computer's records don't match reality
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: GenAI is in its Geocities moment. Shocking bots. And learning to be quiet.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: The bot doesn't always have to talk
You didn't build it yourself, so you have to take some things on faith.
To borrow a phrase about the cloud ...
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: AI is magic. In various meanings of the word.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Sometimes AI is a better fit for that task. Emphasis on "sometimes"
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Machines conquered Wall Street, then learned to play a mean game of poker.
A new perspective on risk management
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: AI use cases, as driven by fraud and stunts. And squeeze bottles.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Cookies can tell us a lot about AI use cases. Especially the more questionable variety.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: More lessons from the CrowdStrike incident
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: How the CrowdStrike incident reflects a key risk in complex systems
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: The shady side of the AI business.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Understanding the race against time that is AI's popularity.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Pondering the easy money in AI, and when it will come due.
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Google changes path on its AI Overviews product
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: the new GPT-4o trips, Google's AI Overview stumbles, and asking what-if questions when building AI products
Is AI having its bubble moment? If so, why would that matter?
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Some short-term AI annoyances, plus some optimism about the future
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: Pricing out the risk of your latest AI adventure
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: A look into auto manufacturers passing driver details to data brokers
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: thinking about our approaching bot-on-bot future
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: the randomness inside every AI model
The latest issue of Complex Machinery: deepfakes for crime, facial recognition, and minding the robots
Complex Machinery is my new newsletter on AI, risk, and related topics.
AI chatbots are great, but they're still a little rough around the edges
Seven questions to help you improve your training data.
Lessons from an AI chatbot's terrible recipe ideas.
Reflections on operational risk, in light of the anniversary of the Knight Capital meltdown
The risks and rewards of using vendor APIs for generative AI models
A reminder that risk and reward are a package deal
Releasing an AI chatbot exposes your company to new risks. Here are some ideas on how to handle them.
A reminder of generative AI's chaotic potential
Risk mitigation for your ML/AI projects
A short list of ways an ML/AI modeling project can go off the rails
Some datasets are problems in waiting.
Potential problems that can affect the entire field.
Adopt a popular expression to improve your risk awareness and assessment.
Zillow recently closed down its home-buying program. Do I see this as a failure of ML/AI? In a word: No.
I interviewed product manager Chris Butler about the role uncertainty plays in AI product management.
Best practices to balance the risk and reward of building predictive models.
Humans versus machines? To reduce your risk, the best answer is "yes."
Learning how to handle risk, from the fields that do it well.
Every company needs someone to be their extra eyes.
An introduction to risk.
Does the AI hype meet the technical term of a "bubble?"
Lemonade's recent media spotlight is a cautionary tale for any company using ML/AI.
It's bad enough when the model is wrong; even worse, when it's wrong and you didn't have to build it in the first place.
When a group predicts students' performance in lieu of holding a exam, it leads to some lessons in the deployment and use of ML/AI models.
What can the world of algorithmic (electronic) trading teach us about good ML/AI practices? (Part 8 in a series)
What can the world of algorithmic (electronic) trading teach us about good ML/AI practices? (Part 7 in a series)
ML/AI models still require a lot of human involvement.
What can the world of algorithmic (electronic) trading teach us about good ML/AI practices? (Part 6 in a series)
Three questions to help you gauge your risk of being laid off.
Business models involving ML/AI are sitting on unrecognized risk.
COVID-19 may be what gets companies to take their ML/AI efforts seriously.
The AI world is sitting on all kinds of risk ... but no one wants to talk about it.
Looking at data ethics through the lens of risk. (Part 5 in a series.)
Looking at data ethics through the lens of risk. (Part 4 in a series.)
Looking at data ethics through the lens of risk. (Part 3 in a series.)
Looking at data ethics through the lens of risk. (Part 2 in a series.)
Looking at data ethics through the lens of risk. (Part 1 in a series.)