With artificial intelligence becoming increasingly prominent, Kickstarter wants you to know if and how it's being used in any projects on the platform. The company will soon require creators to disclose any use of AI in their projects. The policy will apply to every project that's submitted on or after August 29th. "We want to make sure that any project that is funded through Kickstarter includes human creative input and properly credits and obtains permission for any artist's work that it references," Kickstarter's director of trust and safety Susannah Page-Katz wrote in a blog post. "The policy requires creators to be transparent and specific about how they use AI in their projects because when we're all on the same page about what a project entails, it builds trust and sets the project up for success."

Data science projects fail, frequently. Between the end of 2017 and 2019 several published reports from Gartner, NewVantage, and VentureBeat AI showed that'failure' rates on data science projects are north of 75%. But I don't think this is indicative of how powerful the growth of data, machine learning, and AI has been for business (and likely all sectors of the economy) over the same timeframe. Back-of-the-envelope machine learning is inconspicuously powering business today (2020). A premortem is a thought exercise to predict or foresee why an analysis or project might fail.

The idea of Kickstarter first formed in the mind of Perry Chen in 2001. A native New Yorker, Chen was 25, living in New Orleans and working as a musician. He wanted to bring a pair of DJs he loved down to perform during Jazz Fest. He sorted out a venue, organised things with their management, but in the end the event didn't happen – Chen didn't have the funds to pay for the show if not enough people turned up. In his frustration, a thought occurred to him: "What if people could go to a website and pledge to buy tickets for a show? And if enough money was pledged, they would be charged and the show would happen. Over the years that followed, Chen held on to that simple idea. He moved back to New York in 2005, still more intent on making music than starting an internet company – he had no background in technology – but the thought wouldn't go away. He became friends with a music journalist, Yancey Strickler, who got sold on the idea, too. They talked about it with, Charles Adler, a designer and DJ, and the three of them formulated ideas and spoke to mates of mates who knew code or to people who might help fund such a thing. Eventually, in April 2009, eight years after the idea had first come to Chen, the three of them launched their website and waited at their laptops to see if other people thought it was a good idea too. In the first few days, a few emails trickled in, from people pitching ideas, wondering how the thing might work. And then, after a couple of weeks, a young singer-songwriter from Athens, Georgia, launched a project to fund her album, Allison Weiss Was Right All Along. "My name is Allison Weiss and I'm recording a new EP this summer.

The "Terrain of Magical Expertise" RPG is now a sure thing after its Kickstarter project reached its initial goal of $75,000 in just a span of 48 hours. Project co-lead Chris Niosi has also revealed the two stretch goals for the campaign. Last Sunday, Niosi and his team launched the Kickstarter campaign for their 2D turn-based RPG that's based on a hit webseries of the same name. Just two days later, the team was surprised to know that support from backers already exceeded the $75,000 initial goal. The campaign still has 31 days remaining before it ends, so it's very likely that more backers would contribute to the total pledge amount for the game.

The aptly named 3D printer scanner, Zeus, may be a game changer in getting 3-dimensional printers into the consumer market. Invented at the University of Southern California's new incubator/accelerator, Viterbi Startup Garage, the team comes from a unique mix of robotics, artificial intelligence, and computer vision) and appears to be pushing the envelope, so to speak, in creating a multi-functional, all-in-one, 3D printer. You can check out the Kickstarter project: ZEUS: The World's First ALL-IN-ONE 3D Copy Machine. I am on my way over to the USC Viterbi Startup Garage this afternoon and I'm sure it will be an exciting visit considering that their Kickstarter project exceeded its $100,000 goal in 24 hours. Overfunding in the Kickstarter realm often means a project will catch a lot of attention and gain tremendous momentum.

It could give your fish a new lease of life - and allow them to explore the world outside their aquarium. A team of Dutch researchers has developed a remote control aquarium on wheels that fish can steer themselves. The bizarre gadget is set to be launched as a Kickstarter project. The prototype version of'Fish on Wheels' was constructed using a standard webcam, and an Arduino, a tiny comuter, controlled robot vehicle. Using the contrast of the fish with the bottom of the fish tank, its position is determined and used to send commands to the Arduino computer control board to move the car into that direction.

Gordon took NYC Data Science Academy 12 week full time Data Science Bootcamp pr... between Sept 23 to Dec 18, 2015. The post was based on his third class project(due at 6th week of the program). "Kickstarter is the world's largest funding platform for creative projects," says the first line of the description on the company's website. Creators post projects on Kickstarter hoping for their work to be crowd funded by interested parties. If the project's goal is met before the projects expiry date, the money promised becomes money to spend.

Gordon took NYC Data Science Academy 12 week full time Data Science Bootcamp pr... between Sept 23 to Dec 18, 2015. The post was based on his third class project(due at 6th week of the program). "Kickstarter is the world's largest funding platform for creative projects," says the first line of the description on the company's website. Creators post projects on Kickstarter hoping for their work to be crowd funded by interested parties. If the project's goal is met before the projects expiry date, the money promised becomes money to spend.