Amazon vets land $10M for WhyLabs, a Seattle startup that monitors machine learning models - News Nation USA

The news: WhyLabs, a spinout from the Seattle's Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), raised $10 million and released a new tool to support machine learning applications. The problem: As more companies leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence, the need to capture and correct failures is becoming more urgent. Reliance on algorithms can lead to negative implications, as evidenced this week by Zillow Group, for example. "The challenges begin once the machine learning system is live -- it automates millions of decisions a day," a WhyLabs spokesperson told GeekWire in an email. "Monitoring how well it's working becomes critical, because machine learning systems fail in often catastrophic ways."