Artificial Intelligence | Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com/tag/artificial-intelligence/ Publish AI, ML & data-science insights to a global community of data professionals. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 05:10:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://towardsdatascience.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Artificial Intelligence | Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com/tag/artificial-intelligence/ 32 32 What Can the History of Data Tell Us About the Future of AI? https://towardsdatascience.com/a-brief-recent-history-of-data/ Tue, 15 Jul 2025 05:10:24 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606585 A 40-Year Look at Data, Business Models, and the Forces Shaping Intelligent Systems

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]]> Are You Being Unfair to LLMs? https://towardsdatascience.com/are-you-being-unfair-to-llms/ Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:40:50 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606563 They may deserve better.

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]]> Hitchhiker’s Guide to RAG: From Tiny Files to Tolstoy with OpenAI’s API and LangChain https://towardsdatascience.com/hitchhikers-guide-to-rag-from-tiny-files-to-tolstoy-with-openais-api-and-langchain/ Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:56:46 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606560 Scaling a simple RAG pipeline from simple notes to full books

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]]> Worried About AI? Use It to Your Advantage https://towardsdatascience.com/worried-about-ai-use-it-to-your-advantage/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606557 This week, we focus on the future of data science and the opportunities that can arise amid uncertainty.

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]]> My Honest Advice for Aspiring Machine Learning Engineers https://towardsdatascience.com/my-honest-advice-for-aspiring-machine-learning-engineers/ Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:45:20 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606502 What it really takes to become a machine learning engineer

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]]> Explainable Anomaly Detection with RuleFit: An Intuitive Guide https://towardsdatascience.com/explainable-anomaly-detection-with-rulefit-an-intuitive-guide/ Fri, 04 Jul 2025 16:15:52 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606494 Creating interpretable rules to characterize the identified anomalies

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]]> Fairness Pruning: Precision Surgery to Reduce Bias in LLMs https://towardsdatascience.com/fairness-pruning-precision-surgery-to-reduce-bias-in-llms/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 23:29:08 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606492 From unjustified shootings to neutral stories: how to fix toxic narratives with selective pruning

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]]> June Must-Reads: AI Agents, Dashboards, and More https://towardsdatascience.com/june-must-reads-ai-agents-dashboards-and-more/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606559 A selection of our most-read and -shared articles of the past month.

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]]> Software Engineering in the LLM Era https://towardsdatascience.com/software-engineering-in-the-llm-era/ Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:27:46 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606485 On growing new software engineers, even when it’s inefficient

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]]> Why We Should Focus on AI for Women https://towardsdatascience.com/why-we-should-focus-on-ai-for-women/ Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:29:51 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606479 A simulation study on gender disparities entrenched in AI.

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]]> STOP Building Useless ML Projects – What Actually Works https://towardsdatascience.com/stop-building-useless-ml-projects-what-actually-works/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:31:08 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606473 How to find machine learning projects that will get you hired.

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]]> Revisiting Benchmarking of Tabular Reinforcement Learning Methods https://towardsdatascience.com/revisiting-benchmarking-of-tabular-reinforcement-learning-methods/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 16:31:19 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606467 Introducing a modular framework and improving model performance.

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]]> From Reporting to Reasoning: How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Data App Development https://towardsdatascience.com/from-reporting-to-reasoning-how-ai-is-rewriting-the-rules-of-data-app-development/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 16:00:08 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606408 Explore the shift from static reports to intelligent apps with our first ebook.

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]]> Prescriptive Modeling Makes Causal Bets – Whether You Know it or Not! https://towardsdatascience.com/prescriptive-modeling-makes-causal-bets-whether-you-know-it-or-not/ Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:26:39 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606465 An explanation of the causal assumption implicit in prescriptive modeling and how to satisfy it.

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]]> A Gentle Introduction to Backtracking https://towardsdatascience.com/a-gentle-introduction-to-backtracking/ Mon, 30 Jun 2025 18:51:47 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606463 Conceptual overview and hands-on examples

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]]> Become a Better Data Scientist with These Prompt Engineering Tips and Tricks https://towardsdatascience.com/become-a-better-data-scientist-with-these-prompt-engineering-hacks/ Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:54:37 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606455 Part 1: prompt engineering for planning, cleaning, and EDA

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]]> A Developer’s Guide to Building Scalable AI: Workflows vs Agents https://towardsdatascience.com/a-developers-guide-to-building-scalable-ai-workflows-vs-agents/ Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:38:23 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606443 A practical guide to choosing between AI agents and workflows for production systems, covering the hidden costs, architectural trade-offs, and decision framework that can save you thousands in deployment mistakes. Includes real-world examples and a scoring system to determine which approach fits your specific use case.

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]]> Pipelining AI/ML Training Workloads with CUDA Streams https://towardsdatascience.com/pipelining-ai-ml-training-workloads-with-cuda-streams/ Thu, 26 Jun 2025 20:15:54 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606438 PyTorch Model Performance Analysis and Optimization — Part 9

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]]> A Caching Strategy for Identifying Bottlenecks on the Data Input Pipeline https://towardsdatascience.com/a-caching-strategy-for-identifying-bottlenecks-on-the-data-input-pipeline/ Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:37:50 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606434 PyTorch model performance analysis and optimization — Part 8

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]]> The Mythical Pivot Point from Buy to Build for Data Platforms https://towardsdatascience.com/mythical-pivot-point-from-buy-to-build-for-data-platforms/ Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:51:39 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606428 For companies with data-intensive architectures, there often comes a pivotal point where building in-house data platforms makes more sense than buying off-the-shelf solutions

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