Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Liability for Marketing AI Models?

    You Ask, I Answer: Liability for Marketing AI Models?

    Jessica asks, “Who’s liable for violations in marketing AI models, the company that hires the vendor, or the vendor? Anything in service agreements to look for?”

    Who’s liable when someone uses a tool improperly or illegally? Companies have some responsibility, as we see with product warnings, but the ultimate responsibility – and who gets sued/arrested – is the end user. Many EULAs shift the blame entirely to the user and force users to waive liability entirely.

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    In today’s episode, Jessica asks, who’s liable for violations when it comes to marketing AI models or any artificial intelligence models, the company that hires the vendor or the vendor anything service agreements to look for.

    So artificial intelligence models, some really fancy word for software, right at the end of the day.

    Machines are writing software, but they’re writing their own software.

    But it’s still software is still a piece of software no different than you downloading a copy of, you know, Microsoft Word, or Excel or video game.

    And so the laws that apply to AI models, largely the same as the laws apply to standard software and, frankly, the laws that apply to anything.

    Companies have some level of responsibility when it comes to Product use and misuse to have to warn you of things that are obviously potentially dangerous or misleading.

    You know, when you look at the standard bottle of any kind of medication, it tells you, you know when to use this product directions to take it.

    Don’t take it for these things.

    So there’s this a little bit of responsibility coming out of the company.

    But other things, you know, don’t have those warnings necessarily, because they’re not really needed.

    Like, you look at the job of doing spicy peppers.

    There’s no warning on here it says do not pour in your eyes.

    But people do crazy silly things like you know, tide pods.

    At the end of the day, when it comes to artificial intelligence, who’s liable for the way that a model behaves is ultimately up to the end user if you download a piece of pre trained software pre trained model from Any vendor, and that’s got a bias in it of some kind that is against a protected class and therefore not legal.

    You, the company and the user are responsible for what happens with that.

    Right? You are responsible if you use it and then and this model causes your marketing or your operations or your customer service to discriminate against somebody on a protected class, you are responsible for your actions, you are responsible for it just the same as you know, if you go out and you buy a knife of some kind and you use it in to cause somebody harm, it is not the knife minute manufacturers fault that you did something with the tool that was improper.

    You the user, were the person who did the bad thing, and you are liable for it.

    And that can mean civil liability, like getting sued or can mean criminal liability, like getting arrested.

    When you use any piece of software these days, actually, especially when it comes to the Downloading models and data from other people, other companies, there’s a good chance you sign an End User License Agreement.

    Now whether you read it in its entirety is not the company’s problem.

    But chances are somewhere buried deep within that End User License Agreement is a statement that where you waived all liability and you assume entire responsibility, whole responsibility for what you do with the software.

    Whether or not the software is flawed, whether or not the model is biased.

    Whether or not the training data was any good to begin with or not.

    There is a good chance that you have incurred 100% of the liability especially if you’re getting it from a major commercial vendor like Amazon or Google, or IBM or anybody, there’s a good chance that you are assuming 100% of the risk.

    Now, if you are publishing data sets, if you are publishing pre trained models, you definitely want to talk to Your legal department to effectively do the same like, hey, we’ve done our best.

    And maybe, you know, as as we were talking about, you list the ingredients and where you got the data, its provenance things.

    But you definitely want disclaimers of that, as well to somebody downloads your data, your software, etc.

    Your models, you want to say, hey, we’ve done our best.

    We know there may still be issues in here, but you the user, assume 100% of the liability for how you use this, then you cannot hold us liable if you make a piece of software that discriminate against discriminates against people who are, you know, transgender, guess what, that’s not our fault.

    That’s not our problem.

    from a legal perspective, it is your problem as the user of the software.

    It is your liability for you have to take ownership of your actions.

    In terms of service agreements, you’ve got to read them You’ve got to read them.

    And especially before you pay money to anybody, you’ve got to read them to understand what they are and are not accepting responsibility for.

    And do that due diligence of look inside their documentation to the best extent that you can.

    If you’re going to be paying money to this vendor, you can ask that as part of your due diligence to say, give me your data lineage.

    Give me your data, provenance.

    Give me your model governance.

    Show me how you’re keeping the model from drifting Show me.

    Any known issues, you know, just like you buy a house.

    Yeah, have a house Inspector, and they come in and tell you Oh, yeah, it looks like there’s a leak there.

    Like it’s old, but there’s definitely a was a leak there.

    And that’s out of out of code.

    You want to do that same level of due diligence with any models or software that you’re working with to say to the vendor.

    Hey, tell What you’re known issues are disclose any material conditions that could cause issues at the vendor says we don’t have that documentation.

    No, sorry, we don’t have that.

    Don’t do business with them.

    The same as they said, Oh, we our model is totally fine.

    There’s absolutely no bias in it.

    So we don’t have that documentation.

    Okay, that means you didn’t do any checking, because almost every model a data set has some kind of bias in it, whether it’s material or not, meaning has constant is consequential or not is is secondary, but even in the the weekly newsletter, I publish to the Trust Insights newsletter, whenever we publish a study we disclose the methodology and say like, you know, for example, with SEO, this is limited to the English language.

    So it automatically has a bias in it is that bias material, maybe, maybe not.

    But if every vendor who publishes any kind of data models, algorithms, should be saying these are the nodes biases in here.

    take that with a grain of salt, right? If If you feel like the data set needs to have more than just the English language and for SEO, then our data would not be helpful to you.

    Right? There’s that disclosing of known biases, that’s the sign of a more mature vendor.

    they’ve they’ve got their documentation order, they got the disclosures in order.

    They’ve told you what they know is wrong.

    And it’s up to you to decide whether those things are important to you or not.

    So, really good question on liability at the end of the day, remember, it comes down to the the tool manufacturer is not responsible for what you do with the tool.

    You can do good things with it, you can do bad things with it, but at the end of the day, they’re not liable for you are so that’s the rule to keep in mind.

    Has any of this been settled in court? Not that I know of but I also have not done a whole lot of checking on fine law but based on existing software, Law based on existing general liability law and what and I’m not a lawyer and disclosure, I’m not a lawyer, check with your own legal counsel.

    I don’t think aliens has come up in court yet.

    I’m sure it will at some point and it based on existing law, the courts are likely to rule that unless you were intentionally negligent or willful in the creation of your model, that you’re the software manufacturer is probably not responsible for it.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Vetting Marketing AI Vendors for Bias?

    You Ask, I Answer: Vetting Marketing AI Vendors for Bias?

    Tracy asks, “What are some questions you should ask vendors to better understand what data they use in their algorithms to make sure it’s not biased?”

    It’s not just questions we need to ask. Consider checking for bias to be like any other audit or due diligence. We will want to investigate the 6 main areas where bias creeps in: people, strategy, data, algorithm, model, and action/deployment. How do you do this? A lot of it comes down to vendors producing documentation. If they can’t, there’s likely a problem.

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    In today’s episode Tracy asks, what are some questions you should ask vendors to better understand what data they use in their algorithms to make sure it’s not biased? So it’s not a question.

    Well, it’s just questions we need to ask.

    bias is like any other any other professional vetting that you want to do in that there are things to look for, and things to request from a vendor in the same way that you would vet a vendor for equal opportunity, employment for non discrimination for fiduciary responsibility.

    There are so many different aspects to auditing and doing your due diligence on a company and checking for bias and artificial intelligence and machine learning models really shouldn’t be any different than checking to see if a vendor is You know, title seven compliant, right? If the vendor discriminates against people in hiring, you probably would want to do that.

    Know that, you know, when you look at any of these audit forms you’re required to fill out if you’ve ever been through a corporate audit or delightfully fun.

    But there are lots of questions about, you know, what’s your process around hiring, what’s your process around alignment to the Equal Opportunity Employment Act, all these different ways to look for problems.

    When it comes to bias in AI and dealing with vendors, it’s important to understand what kinds of bias to look for there’s six places you want to look for it and we’ve got other videos in the show.

    If you want to head over to the YouTube channel, you can see better definitions and stuff but the six areas we’ll bring this up here, the six areas where bias creeps in, in AI and machine learning are people strategy, data, algorithms, models and actions as So let’s talk about each one of these as it relates to a vendor.

    Number one people is easy.

    Who is has been hired? Right? Who are the people working on the models and algorithms? Who are the people building the software? If you look at the development team, or the engineering team, and you see a complete lack of diversity, there’s probably going to be a problem, right? Even if it’s not intentional, just having a monolithic view of the world, if it’s a bunch of, you know, say 20, mid 20s, Caucasian males, that’s your whole development team.

    They have a natural mindset that does not include people who are black because they’re not in their experience, right? It’s not saying that they’re, they’re bad people, just they simply do not have experience if none of them are female.

    They have no frame of reference for things that females people who identify as female might be interested in, right? So that’s an easy one.

    Look at the people look at the composition of the people.

    Look at the diversity of the people and if you don’t see any diversity, you know, there’s a problem.

    This, by the way applies not just to AI and machine learning, but to every vendor.

    If you’re hiring like a PR agency, go to that agency’s leadership team.

    If you see a whole bunch of people who look exactly the same, there’s a diversity problem there is, which means there’s a diversity of ideas problem.

    second strategy is where bias can creep in, what is this the the strategy that somebody’s going for? Really good example of this.

    Facebook has a strategy of engagement, right? They care about getting eyeballs stuck to their site, which means their algorithms tend to promote things that keep people engaged, like making people angry and afraid all the time.

    And so they’re, the outcomes from that strategy have been, as we’ve all seen, pretty substantially negative, right? We’ve seen a flourishing of hate groups and all these things because that’s the strategy did They intend to allow like Nazi groups to flourish? Probably not.

    But is a natural outcome of an incomplete strategy or strategy that was not informed by a diverse set of objectives.

    Yes.

    Third, data bias creeps in, in data.

    Where did the data come from? Right, where this is what’s called Data lineage or data provenance.

    How good is the data? Is the data itself balanced? Is it representative IBM has a fantastic toolkit called the IBM fairness 360 toolkit.

    If you’re fluent in Python, you can download this for free, run it on your data, declare any protected classes things like age, gender, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender, identity, race, religion, and in your data, it will then say hey, this model does not look representative or this model has a lot of drift or this model is the state is likely to behave badly.

    So checking your data To the lineage of the data is important where the data come from.

    If your data came from sources that themselves are biased, that can be a big problem, for example, black American healthcare, all the data is wrong, right? Because of systemic racism, you cannot get really good large scale data on black American healthcare because there isn’t good data.

    systemic discrimination has created an entire pool of corrupted data.

    Number four algorithms.

    So the algorithms are the individual choices that you make, for what your models going to do, what strategy you’re going to pursue from an algorithm point of view.

    This is things like deciding if you’re going through a gradient boosting now or generalized linear regressions, all these different choices.

    Bias can creep in here because if you have somebody who doesn’t understand the full objectives and doesn’t have a background in diversity, they may choose a competition.

    efficient algorithm, but not necessarily one that is fair.

    So this would be a case for example of using something like a straight up a gradient boosting model versus something like Pareto multi objective optimization.

    The algorithms are very different.

    Pareto optimization allows you to essentially do what’s called trade off analytics, you will get a less well performing model but it it performs against, you know, many many different objectives as opposed to one objective kind of like what Facebook versus like LinkedIn how they function, they function very differently because of their optimization algorithms.

    Number five, the model itself the model can drift.

    The model when it takes in data as it takes in new data over time, it can drift the most famous example this is the Microsoft tape chat bot, which was corrupted by trolls basically, within 24 hours, it became a porn spewing neo nazi chatbot It was a train properly, but it drifted and drifted it didn’t have guardrails to keep it on the rails.

    So that’s a place where bias can creep in.

    And last is the actions.

    What do you do with the model? Right? What do you wear? What are you going to use this model for? This is a good example of this is a martech vendor I saw that was effectively reinvented redlining, right they they built a tool to identify ideal customers, and it reinvented redlining.

    And so bias crept in and in what their model was going, they’re going to do with the model.

    So that’s a very short period of time at all the places that bias can creep in, throughout the process.

    When you’re auditing vendors, when you’re doing your due diligence, ask them for their documentation about how they prevent bias in each of these areas, right.

    You would not get on a plane.

    If you walked in the cockpit and you saw there was no quick reference handbook.

    There was no preflight checklist and you know, the pilots are just kind of winging it right? They do not get on that plane.

    Because that is an unsafe play, and there’s no documentation, there’s no process, there’s no validation that things are working as they should be.

    The same is true with AI and bias, right? If a company has no documentation, no processes, no rigor, no checking for bias in each of these areas with real checklists, like real document checklists, here’s the bullet points that we look for at each stage of our projects, then there’s a good chance by scrapped in, and in turn, that means there’s a good chance that the what they produce is also biased too.

    So look for those ask for those as part of your process, and if they can’t produce it, probably a problem.

    Right? That’s the the easiest way to vet a vendor, ask them for the documentation called part of compliance or whatever.

    And the vendors themselves should recognize that if they don’t have this, they themselves are at legal risk, right because they can’t prove then they’re not biased.

    So, great question.

    We could spend a whole lot of time on this.

    Great question.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Difference Between Fair and Unfair Bias?

    You Ask, I Answer: Difference Between Fair and Unfair Bias?

    Gianna asks, “What’s the difference between fair and unfair bias? What’s the fine line?”

    Fair and unfair comes down to two simple things: laws and values. Statistical bias is when your sample deviates from the population you’re sampling from. Bias isn’t inherently bad unless it crosses one of those two lines.

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    In today’s episode, john asks, What’s the difference between fair and unfair bias? What’s the fine line? So fair and unfair bias really comes down to two simple things, two very straightforward things, laws and values.

    So before you deploy any kind of models, or build any kind of artificial intelligence systems, you need to understand what bias is.

    bias is when your sample your data, your whatever it is you’re working with, in some way statistically deviates from the population you’re sampling from.

    And bias doesn’t necessarily have to be good or bad.

    It just is.

    It’s a mathematical concept, at least in the context that we’re using it here there’s human bias, which is totally separate from statistical bias.

    For example, you may want to sell your product to people who have higher incomes.

    Right? That is allowed.

    Certainly, it makes logical sense.

    And income is one of those things that’s, you know, under somebody’s control to a degree whereas, say their race, they are not under any control of it, they have absolutely no choice in what race they are.

    They have no choice in what age they are, etc.

    So, when you’re talking about what’s fair and unfair, we’re talking about, are we building tools that disadvantage, a population on in some way that is either against the law or against our values, and the two may not necessarily always agree, there are plenty of things that you may decide as a company or as an individual, are unacceptable to your values, even if they are technically legal.

    Right.

    You may decide you don’t want to say include, gosh, firearms owners or coffee drinkers.

    From a, you know, doing business with you, and that’s totally fine because neither of those things are what’s called a protected class.

    protected classes are and this depends on where you live where you work where you do business, the laws change from principality.

    protected classes are attributes that are protected under law.

    In the United States, for example, age, gender, sexual identity or gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, religion, and credo are protected, veteran status, disability, these are all things that you may not discriminate on and have been held up in court.

    Any number of times to say these are not permissible things to discriminate on.

    And so when we talk about fair and unfair bias we are talking about does your software which is what an AI model is does your software in some way disadvantage.

    What people on one of these attributes, if your software says that, you know, we’re only going to show our products to white people, that would be illegal, that would be a, a, an unfair bias along a protected class.

    And again, you may have values that add additional things that you don’t want to discriminate on that you don’t want to advantage or disadvantage somebody on.

    Likewise, you bias is also something that where you advantage in one group of people over everybody else, so it doesn’t have to disadvantage one group, it can just it can disadvantage everybody except one group.

    So bias isn’t inherently bad unless it crosses the lines of laws and values.

    Now where this gets into trouble for AI and machine learning and data science is not necessarily in the protected classes, not even necessarily in the ethics and values, but in how machines use data.

    And, in particular, this is deals with correlates.

    So a Carla is when you have a variable or a group of variables that behave very similarly.

    So there is a strong correlate in, at least in America, for example, between income and race, there is the, the more of a certain race you are, the more probably your incomes higher or lower.

    And so if we’re building a machine learning model, say to only be able to demonstrate to show our ad or our system for our, you know, what we want for customers or who gets in line, who gets privilege treatment.

    And we’re doing it on income level, we are potentially also discriminating on a protected class, right? Because, again, there’s a strong correlation between race and income.

    So one of the biggest challenges that folks in the machine learning and AI space need to be addressing is doing things, you know, doing matching doing propensity scoring, doing regression analysis that demonstrates that the algorithm is discriminating on things that are permissible and is not discriminating on things that are not permissible.

    So, for example, if I’m selling high end coffee, right.

    And I want to discriminate on income level, which is permissible.

    I also have to be able to demonstrate through statistical testing, that, say, a black family with the same income level as a white family is just as likely to be shown our ad as the white family, right.

    Being able to say like race in this case is not a discriminating factor.

    Like if you are black and you have above a certain income level.

    You are just as eligible just to see our ads.

    If, but what will happen in a lot of cases is that people don’t do this testing.

    People don’t do this inspection of their own.

    And the outcomes, and they end up discriminating.

    And whether or not the intent was to discriminate does not matter, it’s whether you actually did.

    Because in a court of law, you will be held accountable for your actions.

    It’s like, you know, I didn’t mean to hit that guy with a hammer, I just hit them with a hammer really hard, I’ll know does doesn’t mean intent means nothing, you hit the guy with a hammer.

    The same thing is true here, where you may not have intended to discriminate along racial lines, or gender identity lines or veteran status, but you did, and you were liable for it.

    So a huge part of the work in AI and machine learning is to know to look for bias to test for it.

    And then to test for correlates to things that are not allowed things are out of alignment, the laws and values.

    And this requires money and time because these are expensive processes to go through and essentially deconstruct a machine learning model to understand how it’s making its decisions.

    And it requires a willingness to do so.

    Now, if the company you’re working for or the project you’re working on, the stakeholders say, No, we don’t want to do that, then at that point, you are personally liable for outcomes.

    Because at best point you may have said, I know there’s a potential problem, I know that we may be doing something wrong.

    If you don’t take action to correct it.

    You’re by definition an accomplice.

    So be aware of that.

    But a lot of what’s happening in machine learning really comes down to those correlates.

    And you just have to test for them you have to investigate, you have to know that there could be a problem.

    And that brings me to my last point.

    You have to be asking these questions of your models.

    Do not assume that the software knows to look for bias because most software out there a few notebooks options like IBM Watson Studio Studio do know to look for it.

    But most software doesn’t.

    Certainly anything you code yourself does not inherently do that unless you put it in.

    So you need to be building that in as a process in your systems so that you are looking for fairness, you’re looking for unfairness, you’re looking for discrimination from the get go.

    And that can happen in the data that can happen to the people you hire to work on the data.

    It can happen in the model.

    And it can happen in the model after deployment, where you get something called model drift where the model starts behaving in ways you didn’t intend it to.

    So looking for unfair bias isn’t something to do one time it is an ongoing process when you’re working with machine learning tools.

    So really good question.

    Where’s a lot to unpack here.

    There’s a lot to talk about when it comes to bias in machine learning, and AI, and in general, but these are things you must be aware of in order to reduce your risk to reduce your liability to reduce the likelihood that you get sued for You know, thousands or millions of dollars? Your follow up questions even in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Third Party Data and Trustworthiness?

    You Ask, I Answer: Third Party Data and Trustworthiness?

    Ashley asks, “If you choose to use public datasets for your ML models, like from Amazon or Google, can you trust that those are free of bias?”

    Can you trust a nutrition label on a food product? The analogy is the same. What’s in the box is important, but what went into the box is also important. Trust is also proportional to risk.

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    In today’s episode, Ashley asks, If you choose to use public datasets for your machine learning models, like from Amazon or Google, can you trust that those are free of bias? Hmm.

    Well, so there’s a couple different things here.

    companies like Amazon and Google don’t typically offer data sets.

    What they do offer are either models or API’s of some kinds.

    So Amazon, for example, has recognition and sage maker and all these things.

    These have API’s behind them.

    They have pre trained models.

    Google, many of the services in Google Cloud perform the same way.

    For example, Google speech to text, things like that.

    Google also does release actual models themselves, like the T five transformer library, which you can install into like Google colab or your local Python environment and use their pre trained models.

    And then there Yes, For example, Google datasets does offered raw data.

    Now, let’s talk about that.

    Can you trust that these are free of bias? In a word? No.

    In order you cannot blindly trust anyone’s machine learning models data is to be free of bias because you don’t know what’s in it.

    So as an analogy, suppose that you have a jar of jalapenos, right? A nutrition label that has five calories per serving.

    And what would I expect to see in this jar jalapenos, right as an ingredient and probably vinegar and water, right? Because that’s maybe some salt.

    That’s what’s in here.

    Can I trust that if I just look the label alone that that’s what I’m getting? Well, when I look at this, I go to jalapenos water vinegar, salt, dehydrated onions, dehydrated garlic, calcium chloride is a firming agent.

    sodium benzoate.

    is a preservative polysorbate 80 which is that in their tumeric for color, why is polysorbate 80 in here, you don’t need an emulsifier For, for peppers in a jar anyway.

    Can I trust? What’s on the label? Can I trust that what’s on the label is is accurate.

    For example, we had a dolloping, where they jalapenos grown, where they grown free of most no harmful pesticides.

    This case this jar is not labeled organic, so probably not.

    On the other hand, if you were in the EU and you had this exact same product, could you trust that it was free of pesticides? Yes, much more so because EU regulations for foods are much more stringent than the United States.

    The same analogy applies to machine learning and data science.

    What the model says is important but also what went into the model to make the model is just as important to be free of bias to be free of both kinds of bias both human and statistical.

    There are for example, any number of cases Is of bias that was unintentional.

    Somebody did not mean for the dataset to be biased or did not mean for their mouth to be biased, but it was because they didn’t do any due diligence when putting it together.

    Most probably famous case of this is Amazon when it attempted to build a hiring AI to screen resumes.

    They trained it.

    They weren’t looking for bias, and the model stopped hiring women.

    Right? Because nobody did any checks.

    So what’s the solution? Can you build from these systems and trust them? Well, there’s two different ways to handle this first.

    The first is to build your own model, which is expensive and time consuming, but it is the only guarantee that the data going into it is trustworthy because you will have vetted it and made it trustworthy and tested it.

    If you are somewhat familiar with Python.

    IBM has the fairness 360 toolkit which is a phenomenal toolkit, totally free, totally free to test datasets for bias.

    And if you are building your own model, you would use that to validate your data before the model is constructed.

    And then you can be reasonably sure that your model is free of at least of data going in being biased, you do still have to monitor it, you still do have to have for example, the protected classes that you’re monitoring for declared.

    And you still do have to ensure that the model when it’s running is not drifting out of the rails that you set for it the guardrails.

    For example, if you said that you know, gender must be 5050 split for 4040 1040 4020 then you would have to monitor and say okay, how far outside is acceptable, you know, is a 1% drift acceptable is a 5% drift is acceptable At what point To say, Hey, we need to either ran the model back and retrain it, or balance it in some way to get it back on the rails.

    So that’s one aspect is the, you have to build it yourself and train it and monitor it to is a risk judgment.

    Try trusting a model is proportional to the risk that you’re incurring with the model.

    So, if I am building a machine learning model to recognize sentiment in tweets, how vitally important is that going to be? No one’s probably going to die.

    If I’m using it for like social media engagement monitoring, probably nobody’s going to die.

    I might make some bad judgment calls, I could cause some damage to a brand.

    But for the most part, it’s not super serious.

    On the other hand, if I am producing, say, a new vaccine it had better be really, really, really biased It better be really representative had a better be really any model I built to try and assess the efficacy of something or identify a drug candidate had better be pristine and it’s freedom from bias because it could actually kill people right the risk level is substantially higher.

    So, the the standards that we must hold that model to are much more stringent facial recognition for say like at a tradeshow booth, relatively low risk, right if you miss identify somebody for you know, as as a gimmick to attract people to your tradeshow booth, not huge facial identification being misused by police, big deal, a life threatening deal.

    So you had You’d better make sure that that model is properly trained and unbiased.

    So that’s how to evaluate you know a lot of these models and data sets and pre trained models and API’s from major vendors.

    Is was level of risk and what is or consequences if it gets it wrong.

    Bear in mind that an awful lot of machine learning models are biased especially in facial recognition.

    And in natural language processing.

    Natural Language Processing has a lot of hidden biases, the most obvious one of which is most of them are trained on the English language and English is, I forget who said it is a language of privilege.

    It is the language of the wealthier part of the world.

    It is not the majority language in the world.

    And there are many, many, many, many billions of people who speak other languages.

    And many of our machine learning models are not well suited to recognizing or processing those models.

    And if you think some of the things that AI does with English are hilarious, you should see what they do to other languages.

    When you give that some consideration and who speaks English and what race they are, and what gender they are, and what income level they are, what ethnicity they are, what religion they are.

    You can see how even something as simple as using the English language could introduce biases into your models.

    So keep that in mind.

    It’s all about trust and risk.

    How much trust Do you need in the model? How high is the risk, and that dictates whether you should be training your own versus using a third parties.

    If you have follow up questions, leave them in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Most Common Biases in Marketing AI?

    You Ask, I Answer: Most Common Biases in Marketing AI?

    Elizabeth asks, “What’s the most common type of bias you see that we as marketers should be aware of?”

    There are so many to choose from, but I’ll start with two: confirmation bias, and selection bias. Confirmation bias corrupts the entire process by looking for a result that fits a predetermined conclusion. Selection bias corrupts the entire process by failing to represent the population you’ve said you’re studying. Watch the video for more details.

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    In today’s episode, Elizabeth asks, What’s the most common type of bias that you see that we as marketers should be aware of? Gosh, there’s so many to choose from.

    Um I’ll start with two of these.

    Because these are the two that again, are probably the most common and things that people don’t think about.

    The first is confirmation bias.

    So confirmation bias, pretty simply is when you start any kind of data science or AI project with a intending to look for a result that fits a predetermined conclusion.

    And you see this a ton in research studies especially.

    But obviously it can extend to building models which are nothing but software based on data is simple.

    Example this, let’s say you’re a SaaS based company, right? And you sell, I don’t know, photo editing services, make something up.

    And you want to promote your services.

    So you build a predictive model that has the marketing goal of telling people, they should edit their photos more.

    Right? You do some market research and all this stuff.

    And of course, you come up with a conclusion that yes, people should edit their photos, a lot more mail, better edited photos, perform better on social media, and you create an algorithm that predicts If only you had edited this photo, it would have earned this much more engagement.

    Now.

    That’s kind of a silly example.

    But you can see how that particular bias corrupts everything.

    Because you are working towards a predetermined conclusion rather than building a model that is truly open to being asked.

    trained and can yield results that frankly might not support your business.

    Right? Again, you see this most often in research.

    There used to be a company not too far from here in the Boston area that would sell this as a service.

    They were, they were sort of the antithesis of good research.

    Yeah.

    They say, hey, you want to prove whatever thing you know, hire our services, we’ll come up with a statistically validated way that proves your thing.

    And anytime, you know, once, once that was known, anytime you saw that company’s name in the in the methodology, if it was even listed, you know, yep, that survey is completely invalid.

    You know, that they, the company that sponsored it bought the result that they wanted, and it ruined the research company’s credibility, and it ruins the credibility of any company that uses that research company.

    So that’s probably the first one that one is relatively easy to spot inside your own organization because your VP of marketing or CEO or somebody says, Hey, I need something that does this.

    That’s not how research works.

    That’s not how good models work either.

    Because one of the things that will happen is that if you are willing to tolerate bias, like that conscious bias in your model, and you are willing to tolerate biases that are discriminatory, that’s going to get your butt kicked over time.

    Second, is selection bias.

    And this corrupts the process because it is a bias that exists your data set that does not represent the population as a whole.

    And so you’re using data that is inherently skewed in some way, consciously or unconsciously.

    And it does not represent whatever population you’re trying to serve.

    So simple example number of years ago Hubspot did a research study saying, you know, we, they made some claims about inbound marketing, which is their thing.

    And when you look at the methodology that says we emailed it was a survey and we emailed our list of you know, however many people we can see the problem here.

    You can’t make a survey that claims to represent all marketers based on your own email list.

    Because people who are on your email list inherently have a greater affinity towards your products and services.

    Right HubSpot was all about and still is about inbound marketing.

    Naturally, somebody who subscribed to their email list probably has at least some passing interest in inbound marketing.

    And as a result, you have a survey that is biased towards people who like inbound marketing and so to make a claim that this represents all views of all marketers is incorrect because there’s this whole group of people out there, not on their email list who probably don’t give too much.

    Have a have a fish at non animal market, they don’t care.

    They don’t it’s not their thing.

    And so their views are not being represented in the survey methodology because it was it was they were selected out.

    Right.

    They were not part of that population.

    Now.

    What could that have certainly have represented.

    You could have certainly said all marketers who are in the HubSpot audience, believe this and that would be valid.

    Right? When you’re collecting data for data science and AI projects, the same thing applies if you are collecting data from a specific focus group that you selected.

    Did you select a group that was representative of your audience as a whole and b2c? That means balancing against things like age, gender, physical location where that person is other demographics.

    This is one of those rare cases where you should be using protected classes like race Gender Identity etc to make sure that you are balanced against the actual population that you don’t have a non representative sample on b2b.

    You’d be looking at things like a balance of companies by size by revenue, number of employees.

    industry, and it should look like the the balance of as a whole.

    So if you do a survey, and your initial data pool comes from 61% technology companies come technology companies just make up 61% of the global economy or even one country’s economy.

    They represent, you know, typically a much lower slice, depending on the metric you choose on.

    So you would want to be sure that you are balancing your dataset to represent the population that you’re claiming to study.

    And selection bias tends to selection bias is not As intentional as confirmation bias confirmation biases, I want to put my thumb on the scale.

    And I want it to say this, which is just a horrendous thing to do.

    selection bias happens more often than not because of naivety, a naive researcher or marketer, or data scientist will just do something and not think, am I balanced? And that’s something that you can solve with things like checklists like did you balance this dataset? Did you balance the input collection methods? Are you Are you truly representative? Have you checked? Have you validated that your data is representative? If you can solve for both of these biases, your data will inherently across the spectrum of the ways that use data from market research data science and analysis projects to AI models will inherently get better.

    It may not deliver the results you’re expecting.

    Particularly if you have a preordained conclusion in mind.

    Even if you keep your processes clean.

    But it will be better.

    It’ll be objectively better data.

    And if you’re using that data to make decisions which you should be, you will make better decisions.

    So really good question.

    There’s a whole bunch of other biases.

    And there’s, there’s a difference between a statistical bias and a human bias that we’ll leave for another time.

    But these are the, I would say the two most common statistical biases that we see in data science and AI, you know, follow up questions, leave in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Data Democratization and AI?

    You Ask, I Answer: Data Democratization and AI?

    Jim asks, “I am skeptical of data democratization because the average decision maker does not understand data collection, transformation, integration etc. Doesn’t AI make this an even bigger problem?”

    It depends on how abstracted the decision-maker is. Certainly the pandemic has shown us the general population is completely incapable of parsing even basic scientific data, like why you should wear a mask. So the question is, who’s working on the AI?

    If AI systems are left in the hands of legitimate experts, it could potentially improve things. For example, IBM Watson Studio has bias detection built in at multiple levels, so the tooling can potentially improve our work – or at least make it easier to audit. On the other hand, if you have the 6-week crash course folks building models, then yes, it could make things much worse.

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    In today’s episode, Jim asks, I am skeptical of data democratization because the average decision maker does not understand data collection, transformation, integration, etc.

    Doesn’t AI make this an even bigger problem? So, let’s first quickly define data.

    democratization is the ability for anybody to be able to work with data hence the term democratization.

    Just like new media, a podcasting and blogging was the democratization of media the ability for anybody to make a podcast anybody to make a blog as such.

    And data democratization has been something that has been on technology companies radar for a really long time.

    My my whole start working with IBM, years ago, was around Watson Analytics, the idea of the citizen analysts as the average person who could pick up some good tooling data set and generate some usable insights didn’t work out so well.

    And to Jim’s point, the reason it didn’t work out so well is because data analysis even though it sounds simple, isn’t there are a lot of pitfalls.

    There are a lot of gotchas.

    There are a lot of things that are not taught well and poorly emphasized when people start working with data things like margins of error and statistical relevance, statistical validity.

    All these things are things that in a laypersons experimentation with with data and math and, and statistics and such, don’t really get covered.

    People have a tendency to approach things in a very naive fashion which is normal.

    And they pick up a tool they run a basic analysis they haha I’ve got the answer.

    You can You can tell how expert somebody is in the realms of mathematics and statistics by how many shades of grey? their answers come with, right? The beginning person is like, this is the answer.

    You know, the extra person is like, well, there’s a whole bunch of reasons why this may or may not be the answer.

    And we’re not really sure.

    We can give you probabilities, we can give you a sense of reliability or not in the data, but for the most part, it’s not as cut and dried as you think.

    Right.

    And those are the answers people hate.

    People hate those answers.

    And that’s why data democratization hasn’t worked out so well, because there are a whole bunch of people who want the answer.

    And the answer doesn’t exist, there could be a range of answers.

    So does AI make this worse? Well, it depends on how abstracted the decision maker or the the AI tool user is from the tools themselves.

    Certainly, the pandemic In particular, has shown us that the general population is completely incapable of parsing even basic scientific data like why to wear a mask? Sorry.

    It’s true.

    People couldn’t get understand even the most basic scientific facts and data points and make good decisions from them.

    So the question then is, does AI make this worse or an even bigger problem? It depends on who’s working on the AI.

    It depends on who’s working on the models.

    If you hand somebody a piece of fully polished software, a model of some kind of, they can’t really tinker with the innards.

    They can only use it for its intended purpose.

    The likelihood that it goes off the rails is lower.

    If it’s good software than somebody say, picking up Python and just trying to hand it copying and pasting the code randomly from Stack Exchange.

    If AI is left in the hands of legitimate experts, it could potentially improve things IBM Watson Studio is introducing bias detection at multiple levels in the process from data intake, to model to model drift, right? And it puts a big old warning saying like, Hey, your models drifted more than 6%, or Hey, your models drifting on this protected class, I should probably not do that.

    And so in those instances where the the, the person who’s working on the system has to stay within the boundaries of a well trained system and has to obey the warnings that it gives, yes, ai could potentially improve our work and potentially reduce some of the problems that come with data democratization.

    On the other hand, if you get that, you know, six week Crash Course a person who, you know, took the six week crash course in AI certificate.

    Yeah, I could make things a lot worse because that person doesn’t have the background in data science doesn’t have the background in stats and probability.

    Probably It is a generalization, but probably doesn’t have that level of background and that level of experience of just having models go off the rails.

    And without a mentor without somebody more experienced to guide them, it could make things a lot worse I was having a conversation with a of a founder of a startup a few weeks ago, was talking about how there’s got all these sophisticated models are working on building and you know, you had a friend of his from college, they just both graduate from college, you know, they’re gonna engineering these models and have some experience in it.

    And I said, Okay, tell me about how you’re doing bias detection.

    Tell me about who on the team has the most experience with ethics and data ethics and he’s like, a, like, Okay, so this is gonna go off the rails pretty quick.

    I said that you need to be building into your product.

    Things like monitoring for model drift.

    Things like looking for ethical problems, things like that would you know, fail you on a basic ethics audit.

    This was news to the person.

    So in that instance, where you have a bunch of people who are inexperienced with AI, trying to deploy it, yes, AI is going to make those problems of data democratization even worse, because these are people who don’t know what they’re doing.

    On the other hand, you get somebody who has, you know, 510 15 years of experience.

    In working with datasets, knowing when a data set is imbalanced knowing when a p value has gone off the rails knowing how to do a two tailed t test.

    In those cases, the person who’s building the system will probably do okay, and will make a system that is hard for other people to screw up.

    So it really comes down to which is going to deliver a good outcome a good long term outcome.

    One of the dangers In AI, particularly round bias is that a system with no constraints will perform better, it will do things that you do not want it doing well.

    It’ll behave in unethical ways.

    But it will, in the short term deliver better results.

    a longer term assistant built for the long term will make trade offs and say like, yeah, we don’t want bias on gender identity, we don’t want bias on race.

    And the system will have to sacrifice some levels of performance, the model’s ability to generate the top nine performance in order to meet those competing objectives.

    But that’s exactly the kind of caution and care and attention to detail that you want.

    So will AI make data democratization worse, potentially? Will it make it better potentially all depends on who’s steering the ship? How do we help people steer the ship better? give them that list of questions the pickup Dr.

    Hilary Mason’s free book Ethics and data science has got a ton of great checklists in it about questions you should ask before starting any project with data, ethical questions, process questions, accountability questions, those will help make all of us better data scientists, better data analysts better AI engineers.

    And if you work in a company and you have a leadership role, hold your company accountable to a lot of those those benchmarks, say we’re going to adhere to these basic processes, so that we generate outcomes that will not get a sued, or get us failing an audit of some kind.

    So, really good question.

    We could spend a lot of time on this.

    If you have follow up questions, leave it in the comments box below.

    Subscribe to the YouTube channel newsletter, I’ll talk to you soon.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Staying Ahead in AI and MarTech?

    You Ask, I Answer: Staying Ahead in AI and MarTech?

    Buyan asks, “What habits do you do on a regular basis that help you learn and stay ahead in the AI and MarTech space?”

    Staying current means doing two things: learning and practicing. You need both, in equal amounts, to be able to stay current and fresh.

    Listen in for details on how to approach this.

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    In this episode Brianne asks, What habits do you do on a regular basis that help you learn and stay ahead in the AI and Mar tech space? So it’s a good question.

    Any kind of progress requires you to be doing two things to build a third thing.

    And those two things are you need to be learning, which is the academic knowledge act, acquiring information, processing and understanding what it is that you’re reading.

    And then two is practice.

    implementing what all the things you’re reading so that it’s not just theory.

    You understand how it works, make your own discoveries, and more importantly, discover what doesn’t work.

    Those two things combined get you experience or wisdom if you’d like.

    And they are required in equal amounts.

    One of the challenges we see happen a lot is people who are over leveraged in one of those two areas, they are spending so much time doing the thing, that the knowledge gets stale.

    I meet a lot of practitioners at corporations who are so heads down on getting the job done getting that to do lists cleared and stuff that they lose track of what’s happening in industry, they don’t know that, you know, this new model came out or this new technique is available, or this new software has happened.

    Because it’s just one of those things.

    They’re trying to stay afloat, which I totally get.

    I had experiences like that and agency life where you’re working 60 7080 hours a week, just to get things done just to keep things moving along.

    The academic knowledge without practice, is armchair theory, right.

    You can read about something go well, it could do all these things.

    But you never actually understand how the work so you don’t understand the limitations.

    And you may not even understand what it is you’re talking about.

    When I was in graduate school, I remember this one class where the professor was talking about OLAP cubes, online AP application processing, take notes on it, the type of database.

    And he was talking about the theory of OLAP cubes and transaction processing, and had never actually used the technology.

    So in class one day, I said, Okay, well, let’s just set one up, because at the time, Microsoft SQL Server supported that.

    I said, let’s just set one up.

    And we did.

    And it turns out that most of this professional theories about how OLAP cubes worked, didn’t hold up because the practical application was very, very different.

    And he really was not aware of that.

    Now.

    In fairness, It wasn’t necessary for his job to do that.

    And the theories themselves, I think were starting points for people to try to figure out how to implement them.

    But that’s why you need that practical application and the academic theory in tandem, they can’t have one without the other.

    And so for what I do, to stay current is those two things on the academic theory side, I put together newsletters, I read a ton.

    In order to do that.

    I have software that helps curate a list of the top things I need to pay attention to in martagon, marketing data science and AI.

    And as I’m putting together these newsletters, I’m reading through what the machines have have assembled as my reading list.

    I go Wow, I didn’t know that happened or I didn’t realize that happened or this was the thing.

    That’s like 1500 articles a week and just going through this.

    Wow.

    There’s a lot That’s happening that was not aware of and as I go through and put together my newsletter, I go that’s useful that’s useful that’s useful.

    Go and read those things.

    I also belong to a number of communities I run a slack community as part of Trust Insights.

    If you go to Trust insights.ai slash analytics for marketers, that’s the community I run but I’m also in two dozen other slack communities about half a dozen discord communities.

    I’m subscribed to I can’t tell you how many newsletters voluntarily that all bring in new information, new academic information to learn Hey, did you know this thing was happening? I was reading Elisa Solis is Seo FOMO newsletter the other day and this is how core web vitals are going to be part of ranking download, okay, I need to know that.

    But then the other side, the practice side is doing the thing.

    Now, a lot of I get a lot of practice doing stuff for, you know, clients at Trust Insights and things, but I also So you’ll run my own website, my personal website now Christopher Penn calm, I test a lot of things out on it.

    Because it’s a safe place to test.

    I’m not going to destroy my company’s revenues to fight to take down a website by for an hour by accident.

    I do.

    I’ll just a lot of testing in general, I used to do a live stream show called Saturday night data Party, which was more just messing around with stuff, playing with things.

    As new models come out, or as new pieces of software come out if I can run them in an environment like Google Collaboratory run in there, see what happens.

    I’m actually got another window open over here, trying to run a model called jukebox, which is going to do generative music creation, which is interesting stuff.

    So it’s just picking up things as you read about them saying, I’m going to try this.

    How does this work? What does it involve? And can I make the thing work and generate the result that’s promised result and you find out really quickly Some things live up to their promises, other things, not so much on a good day, you might be able to get them to work on a bad day.

    Just immediate and hilarious failure.

    So that’s the process.

    The challenge is, you have to build time and your schedule for it, you have to make time for professional development.

    It will, in almost every place I’ve worked, there’s been a lot of lip service to professional development and like maybe an organizational send it to a conference like once a year.

    But that’s it, they will not create the time for you.

    So you have to do that.

    And if you can do that in your working hours, great.

    Sometimes you have to do it outside your working hours.

    If you care about your professional development, you will have to make that time outside of work.

    You’ll have to take time away from something else like you know, whatever series you’ve been doing on Netflix, in order to give yourself time to research and grow and that’s the hardest part for you.

    But people are not willing to make the time for themselves personally, even if it’s a benefit to them professionally and to their careers and to their their income, all that stuff.

    I don’t know why doing stuff that is for professional development has just been something I’ve always been part of doing.

    I think it comes from either whether whether you like the process of learning or you don’t.

    But I think is a learnable thing.

    I don’t think it’s something you’re born with.

    It’s just overcoming perhaps bad experiences in the past.

    So that’s the process, academic knowledge, practical application, put the two together to get experience and make the time for it.

    Make the time for it.

    Dedicate two hours a week, wherever you can find them.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: What Makes a Good Content Marketing Idea?

    You Ask, I Answer: What Makes a Good Content Marketing Idea?

    Stephanie asks, “How do you define what makes a good, quality content idea?”

    The easy answer is whether it provokes emotion. Measure your emotional writing with a service like IBM Watson Tone Analyzer.

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    In today’s episode, Stephanie asks, How do you define what makes a good quality content idea? Fundamentally, a good idea is one that provokes some kind of emotion.

    Right? It makes you care about it, when you’re creating it should provoke something and then when you send it out to a beta tester, it should provoke something in them.

    For years, I’ve had a what’s called a three l framework.

    When you’re working on an idea, if it doesn’t make you laugh, if you didn’t learn something, when you were building it, if you don’t love it so much that you’re talking to, you know, your significant other or a friend who’s not involved in the company or the industry, he just can’t stop talking about you know, you’ve got a good idea.

    You know, you got something that is exciting to you.

    It makes you happy.

    You engaged with it.

    And those are the same criteria as well from the readers or the consumers perspective, right? It should be educational.

    It should be entertaining, possibly it should be engaging.

    Did did you laugh? Does it make you does it provoke some kind of reaction? Did you learn something? If your content doesn’t fulfill any of those criteria, it’s not a good idea.

    Right? On the other hand, if Phil’s at least one, there’s some sharpening of the pencil you could do to make it better to elevate it, but at least you’ve got that one.

    If you can get all three, you’ve got a piece of magic I enhance and that is something that is very difficult to to create without a lot of work.

    I was writing a piece of short fiction not too long ago, and in the first version of it, I had a beta reader read through it and be like, okay, Good.

    Good isn’t what I’m going after a good as good isn’t great, right? So I rewrote the ending for it, I handed it back to this person.

    And I said, Give it another read through.

    And we’re back.

    Oh my god.

    fpu because I, there’s a twist at the end of the story.

    And that’s what I knew I had a great piece of content.

    It provokes such a strong emotional reaction in the person they like, I feel like that’s the winner.

    I know.

    That’s, I know, that’s something.

    There’s a there there.

    And when other people have read it, like okay, yeah, that’s that that was the thing.

    You have to figure out which emotions you write well, because it’s not always going to be ones that are necessarily appropriate all the time.

    And it depends on your creative abilities right? Some people can create humorous content really well consistently all the time comedians do this all the time.

    And yes, they have you know missus and they will take stuff out like a small comedy club and test it out for small crowd and you know some stuff just bombs, but other stuff does really well depending on the audience.

    You may not be able to do humor if it’s not one of my capabilities to create consistently humorous material.

    You may be good at creating material that makes people sad, right? There are any number of really good writers that can create you know, angsty stories that are just heart wrenching tales.

    That may be the emotion that you’re good at.

    You could be somebody and you have to use this power judiciously.

    You could be somebody who’s really good at making people angry intentionally by design, writing content that makes people angry.

    If That kind of person, there are a number of political campaigns that would like to help.

    And, you know, there’s, again, one of the basic core emotions, you may be good at making people afraid.

    Again, a lot of marketers do this not well, either.

    Microsoft for years was known as, as the company of fun, fear, uncertainty and doubt being able to create content that created those emotions and people and made them purchase Microsoft products as the safe haven as a safe haven from all these, you know, crazy new things, they would say could ruin your company rarely ever did.

    But they were really good at that, that writing style.

    So when you’re creating content, figure out what emotions you’re really good at writing.

    And there’s are a number of tools out there suddenly, like IBM, Watson has Watson Tone Analyzer and Watson personality insights but Tone Analyzer is the one that will can take a piece of text and and tell you what you meant.

    motions appear in the language and centers around was it? anger, fear, sadness, anticipation, joy.

    Gosh, I’m missing two.

    But there’s eight emotional directly directions are vectors that it measures your text on.

    Take some of the content that you’ve written in the past, your best pieces that you that you feel are the best way to perform the best feed into a service like you know Watson Tone Analyzer.

    It is a free demo, you can try and see what emotions you’re really good at writing.

    Even if it’s not necessarily once you think that you’re you’re good at writing it, if the they’ve performed well, you have the objective measurement, they’ve performed well.

    And the software says hey, you’re really good at writing joyful pieces.

    Great.

    You know that and then you can double down on that and working on improving the language that you use to bring out even more more of that.

    So what makes good quality content is emotions, provoking them, eliciting them from people.

    And the most important thing you can do is to figure out which emotions you’re good at writing.

    The challenge you may run into, is that what you’re good at is what your company is not aligned with their brand, right? If you’re really good at writing content that engages fear, and your company is like a yoga, there could be a bit of a mismatch.

    And in those situations, you have to figure out how do you write in such a way, and maybe you partner with somebody else on on your team if there’s someone else available that can write in those other styles.

    Again, using the tools like Watson Tone Analyzer, you may be able to analyze pieces that other folks on your team have written or in your company, and see what are the companion emotions that you could do.

    Team up with somebody else and collaborate and create content that strikes a good balance between those two emotions.

    It’s, you know, the the, they’re not negative, but they’re associated with being negative emotions, like anger and fear, are good as part of a piece of content.

    Because in your standard marketing copy, you’re looking at what state the problem, what the impact of the problem is, what the solution is, and then how your company fulfills that solution.

    That fear and anger right and goes in the problem and impact right, you know, this is the problem.

    This is what happens if you don’t solve the problem.

    And if the writing that someone, a joyful person would be like, I don’t know how to express this in, you know, the impact in a compelling way.

    Like, if you don’t solve this problem, I don’t think so.

    Okay, that won’t sell anything.

    That’s where you as the writer who’s like adding to these terrible things will happen and you’ll lose your job and someone will come and take your dog away.

    That will allow you To use those skills there and then you have your your, your colleague who can write in the emotional release of the solution in the second half of the content it will Delta work on making a unified voice.

    But knowing the emotions you’re good at and then figuring out how to artfully weave them into pieces of content is important.

    So again, yep, questions, leave them in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Can AI Write as Well as a Human?

    You Ask, I Answer: Can AI Write as Well as a Human?

    Deborah asks, “Can AI write as well as a human?”

    The answer depends on what the human is writing. If it’s complex, original works like novels, the answer is no. If it’s marketing swill, the answer is yes. If we examine some common readability metrics – which are decent proxies for content quality – we see that marketing-centric content tends to be junk writing.

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    In today’s episode Deborah asks Can AI right as well as a human? Well? The answer is it depends on what the human is writing language generation models, natural language generation of models, like open a eyes GPT series of models, or the T five Transformers from Google can write reasonably well, you know, in a very general sense, but the more specific the task, the better they get, the more guidance you give them and more guardrails you put on the better they get something like a complex original work like say a novel answer’s no machines cannot write as well as human not without an extraordinary amount of training and resources.

    To the point where it’s not cost efficient, you’d be better off hiring novelist to write a novel, then you would be to try and train a machine.

    Even if the machine could generate, you know, 1000 pulp novels.

    The amount of editing time and QA that would have to go into it would effectively negate any gains you got out of it.

    Now, if it’s marketing swill, the answer is yes.

    And the reason for that is, a lot of what we write in marketing is junk, right? It’s not very good quality content.

    It’s actually it’s pretty appallingly bad content.

    And it’s easy for machines to replicate crap.

    Think about a bell curve, right? On one end, you have low quality content on another and you have high quality content in the middle is a bunch of mediocre stuff.

    As machines evolve, they go from, they can replicate total garbage, right, because that’s pretty easy.

    And then they start to iterate and get slightly better and now they’re kind of at the meeting.

    Yoker phase, right? They can write mediocre marketing as well, can they write good quality copy or great quality copy, not really not without, again, a lot of training to the point where it is not cost efficient to do that unless you’re a company that is dedicated to doing that.

    But if you or the look at the metrics, in fact, let’s do this.

    Let’s bring this up here.

    What we’re looking at here is four sets of readability scores for a lot of marketing copy.

    So this is articles, blog posts, press releases, essentially it is content marketing stuff, right and not very good.

    And this is 130,000 of these that we have stored in the TrustInsights.ai database.

    I have four quadrants, we have the jargon score, which is the smog score, simple measure of gobbledygook.

    We have the flesh Kincaid readability index.

    We have the Coleman layout index.

    And the flesh Kincaid grade level.

    What you notice here is that there is a definite skew towards the right side for three graphs and sort of a bell curve in the middle.

    So let’s walk through these briefly.

    The jargon score, lower is better, right? So you want that content be easier to read than harder to read.

    And in this case, there’s a very definite kurtosis or lean towards the harder to read side means that our content is full of jargon, and a lot of it on readability, the readability score, 100 is great.

    Zero is bad.

    And we see a bell curve there in the middle, you know, 5055 60 is where most continents so it’s, again, it’s mediocre content, right? There’s very, very little on the far side here of the readability index, it says, Yeah, you got great content, very thin.

    On Coleman Liao.

    Again, this is similar to grade level, you can see there’s a tremendous amount of very difficult to Read content on the far right hand side and then I’ll hold opposite field.

    And then on the flesh Kincaid grade level, we see that marketing content is around nine ninth to 11th grade content because of the jargon because of the amount of stuff that we put in our copy that is difficult to read.

    That is extensively polysyllabic, which means that we use real big words.

    You know, think about the, the list of corporate buzzwords that we love to use.

    And you can see that reflected here in this data that this data very clearly shows we love our our fancy, complicated language.

    When you have language like that, when you have, you know, buzzword bingo, you have templates, an awful lot of things like you know, basic blog posts are very templated when you have press releases, announcements, They all follow a copy that is so formulaic, that is very easy for machines to replicate and probably do a better job than the majority of humans.

    Because when these natural language generation models are trained on language, they’re not trained on just one specific domain.

    They’re trained on as much language as possible.

    The most recent version of GPG three was trained on something like 170 5 billion parameters, which is a massive, massive, massive amount of texts, basically, the bulk of the readable text in English online.

    That means that when these machines go to generate language, they will naturally use more vocabulary a little bit more.

    lexical diversity is the technical term than a human would because in a lot of cases, humans will just copy and paste the last thing they did.

    I used to work at a public relations agency and I would literally watch you know, Junior associates Just copy and paste from one press release to the next change the name of the company in the name of the CEO.

    But effectively, they all say the same thing.

    You know, the chief executive says, you know, we’re so excited or proud or pleased or release our new version, whatever, whatever, whatever.

    And we’re flexible, scalable, industry leading agile, you know, can a machine replicate that hundred percent, hundred percent a machine can replicate that and do better than, than the humans do? So can AI right as well as the human? It depends on the context.

    But for sure.

    machines can now right at, I would say the mediocre level, right? The they could they’ve got bad down.

    They’ve got a mat down.

    They’ve got they’re getting mediocre down.

    Now.

    As each model improves, as the technology improves, they will eventually get down good.

    Good writing.

    Right.

    And for those companies that have the strongest infrastructure and the greatest level of resources, some will get great writing down.

    What does that mean for you as a as a marketing practitioner, it means that you’ve got to be improving your skills.

    If you are on the bad side of writing, you probably need to stop writing for marketing and look at a different profession.

    Because the machines can already crank out swell better than you can.

    If you’re in the mat mediocre, you better uplevel those skills, take some courses, do some writing workshops, do anything that whatever you can do, that will improve your skills and get them to good write.

    If you’re a good writer, you’ll keep working to become a great writer.

    But whatever you do, you cannot stay static.

    You cannot just rest on your laurels at wherever you are this continuum.

    Because the machines are advancing faster than then we are collectively.

    Will there come a day when you push a button and the machine spits out a novel probably We are already seeing a prototype examples of this with GPT three open AI model.

    Is it good yet? No.

    But it definitely shows what is possible.

    What is what is theoretically possible.

    And what is possible today is easily achievable in five to 10 years, maybe less depending on how fast compute power goes up.

    So that’s the answer to this question.

    AI can write as well as humans who are bad at their job.

    AI can write as well as humans who were mediocre at their job.

    And AI will eventually write as well as humans who are good at their job.

    So your job as a human is to become great at writing so that you stay ahead of the machines.

    If you have follow up questions, leave in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Merging Liberal Arts with Computer Science?

    You Ask, I Answer: Merging Liberal Arts with Computer Science?

    Mbeiza asks, “Merging Liberal arts with science helps make what one has to offer unique. How can I merge the liberal arts with what I want to do in order to have a unique skill or product to offer?”

    Fundamentally, a successful marketer has to be both qualitative and quantitative – the ability to be half art, half science. The first step is to determine where you’re weakest. How well do you know things like anthropology and ethnography? Music, art, literature -all the different ways we communicate with each other? Psychology, sociology, etc. You’ll find in each domain there are qualitative concepts to explore and quantitative concepts as well.

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    In today’s episode and bays asks, merging liberal arts with science helps make what one has to offer unique How can I merge the liberal arts with what I wanted to do in order to have a unique skill or product offer.

    So fundamentally successful marketer has to be both qualitative and quantitative, that is half art, half science, there really is no way to be successful going forward, that it’s something that’s too narrowly specialized unless you are literally no one of the top 1% in that specialization.

    And the reason for that is that artificial intelligence continues to make such substantial strides that within the span of our lifetimes, many individual tasks will be turned over to machines to do Now that doesn’t necessarily mean that we are going away per se, but it means that we will need fewer, far fewer of us.

    In order to get work done.

    I’ve often said be like being a conductor of the orchestra.

    Rather than being the first violin challenges.

    Of course, you only need one conductor in the orchestra.

    Whereas you have lots and lots of musicians.

    But if all musicians are performing narrow specializations, like violin or clarinet or whatever, then you don’t really need people for those other roles.

    So to be a successful marketer going forward to plan well for the future, and quite frankly, to be well structured for whatever challenges come your way.

    I really do believe that, that liberal arts education, that broad spectrum of knowledge is important and yes, you will find not every subjects exciting.

    Certainly, that was my experience, but you have to be half hearted Half science, creative and quantitative, rigorous, but also able to, to vary outside the rules when you need to.

    And the first step to making that determination is figure out what your weakest.

    Where are your vulnerabilities.

    Think about what marketing and business to a greater or lesser degree fundamentally is.

    It’s about communication, right? It’s about communication people, which means that we need to understand people, we need to understand communication.

    So that means subjects like anthropology and ethnography, being able to understand how people interact with each other.

    And sort of the history of their ability to do that.

    That means understanding psychology and sociology.

    Again, individual behaviors group behaviors.

    That means understanding communications methods, visual auditory kinesthetic, so music, art, literature, dance, not necessarily doing those things.

    Although it certainly doesn’t hurt, but at the very least understanding what those things are and how they’ve evolved, especially in a global economy, one of the challenges that a lot of students will face is that their learning materials tend to be skewed towards a certain point of view.

    This is especially true in the United States where everything is overly centered, centered on the United States and kind of ignores the rest of the world is why 11% of students in America can’t find America on a map.

    Anyway.

    So music, art, literature, dance, all the different ways you can communicate with people visually, auditorily kinesthetically to convey messages to them.

    And then absolutely, I’m hard sciences.

    You’re talking about statistics and probability, mathematics all the way up through things like linear algebra, and advanced calculus.

    You’re talking about the scientific method to some degree, understanding things.

    Like biology and chemistry and physics actually do have relevance to marketing, to understanding why things happen the way they do, especially when you start to get into really complex subjects.

    Like why like how machine learning works, machine learning and AI, coding, being able to write in Python are being able to use databases.

    Marketing is essentially how to interact with the human race.

    Right.

    And so everything that is in the human experience is something that you can study and it will have value for understanding certain groups of people.

    I wouldn’t be so worried about a product to offer.

    And at this point, I would not be terribly concerned about having a specific unique skill to develop.

    What you want to be able to do is have a broad base of knowledge to draw from that you can bring to a variety of situations that will really help you Form problems that you’re asked helps off and be extremely versatile.

    So whatever the challenge is, you have some level of competency that can make the challenge a little bit less daunting.

    That’s why things like you know, technical skills, being able to write code, but being able to interact with something like music, together are much more difficult for machines to copy.

    AI is very bad at broad knowledge.

    AI is very good at narrow domains.

    If you can have that broad knowledge that lets you develop multidisciplinary domain expertise.

    It’s very hard for machine to copy.

    It’s very hard for machines to create because most people are not that way.

    And because we train machines on past existing data, if you can create things that are net new that are not part of the machines previous corpus of learning We’re not in a substantial enough way.

    You can add value the machines simply cannot.

    So that’s a lot to tackle.

    Again, figuring out where you’re weak, where you’re weakest as a, as a learned person is the first step.

    What are all the things that you could study? What are the things that are likely to be important? And I forgot to mention in there One other area that’s really important, particularly if you are in marketing is the ability to study business, right? Everything from operations to management to finance, I can’t tell you how many marketers I’ve met who have absolutely no idea how to compute ROI, how to compute, net profit, things like that.

    So those basics are super important as well and are definitely lacking.

    So where are you weakest and where were you also strongest, whether the areas that are so appealing to you that if you could just do those things or study those things deeply.

    How can you bring other disciplines into those areas of study, for example, I’ve spent a lot of time on analytics.

    I spent a lot of time on an in data science, but I also spent a fair amount of time doing natural language processing.

    So understanding literature and styles and writing and all these things is important to being able to do that well, not necessarily just to be able to write the code, but also to know what to look for, to know to be able to judge the merits of something based on the outputs it gives, working on a piece of code that deals within stylometry, which is the measurement of writing styles.

    And if you didn’t know anything about how, you know, different authors have different styles and you weren’t able to have that knowledge base, then when the machine spits out results, there’s no way of knowing whether it did a good job or not.

    But if you have some level of domain expertise in that, you can you can fact check the machines.

    So that’s a lot to tackle.

    Again, start with the evaluation.

    Figure out where your weakest wins and then double down on what you’re strong at and mitigate where you weakest.

    If you have follow up questions, leave them in the comments box below.

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