{"id":212349,"date":"2025-04-24T17:07:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T22:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/a-new-way-to-measure-uncertainty-provides-an-important-step-toward-confidence-in-ai-model-training"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:07:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T22:07:21","slug":"a-new-way-to-measure-uncertainty-provides-an-important-step-toward-confidence-in-ai-model-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/a-new-way-to-measure-uncertainty-provides-an-important-step-toward-confidence-in-ai-model-training","title":{"rendered":"A new way to measure uncertainty provides an important step toward confidence in AI model training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-way-to-measure-uncertainty-provides-an-important-step-toward-confidence-in-ai-model-training2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s obvious when a dog has been poorly trained. It doesn\u2019t respond properly to commands. It pushes boundaries and behaves unpredictably. The same is true with a poorly trained artificial intelligence (AI) model. Only with AI, it\u2019s not always easy to identify what went wrong with the training.<\/p>\n<p>Research scientists globally are working with a variety of AI models that have been trained on experimental and theoretical data. The goal: to predict a material\u2019s properties before taking the time and expense to create and test it. They are using AI to design better medicines and industrial chemicals in a fraction of the time it takes for experimental trial and error.<\/p>\n<p>But how can they trust the answers that AI models provide? It\u2019s not just an academic question. Millions of investment dollars can ride on whether AI model predictions are reliable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s obvious when a dog has been poorly trained. It doesn\u2019t respond properly to commands. It pushes boundaries and behaves unpredictably. The same is true with a poorly trained artificial intelligence (AI) model. Only with AI, it\u2019s not always easy to identify what went wrong with the training. Research scientists globally are working with a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}