Artificial Intelligence: How to Move Away from the Hype

An often overlooked aspect of building a strong AI team is diversity. This is as important in a team as its broad range of hard skills. It's how you avoid running one of the biggest risks in building AI models: bias. For example, take a model that focuses on projecting the success of entrepreneurs in a certain country. If you look at the Netherlands, for instance, where approximately 37 percent of entrepreneurs are women, and correlate successful startups with gender, you'll find out that men are significantly more successful in business than women--an unfair conclusion because the model doesn't take into account the gender imbalance in the population of entrepreneurs.