{"id":92799,"date":"2019-06-28T01:23:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T08:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/mits-new-interactive-machine-learning-prediction-tool-could-give-everyone-ai-superpowers"},"modified":"2019-06-28T01:23:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T08:23:09","slug":"mits-new-interactive-machine-learning-prediction-tool-could-give-everyone-ai-superpowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/mits-new-interactive-machine-learning-prediction-tool-could-give-everyone-ai-superpowers","title":{"rendered":"MIT\u2019s new interactive machine learning prediction tool could give everyone AI superpowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mits-new-interactive-machine-learning-prediction-tool-could-give-everyone-ai-superpowers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Soon, you might not need anything more specialized than a readily accessible touchscreen device and any existing data sets you have access to in order to build powerful prediction tools. A <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2019\/drag-drop-data-analytics-0627\">new experiment from MIT and Brown University<\/a> researchers have added a capability to their \u2018Northstar\u2019 interactive data system that can \u201cinstantly generate machine-learning models\u201d to use with their exiting data sets in order to generate useful predictions.<\/p>\n<p>One example the researchers provide is that doctors could make use of the system to make predictions about the likelihood their patients have of contracting specific diseases based on their medial history. Or, they suggest, a business owner could use their historical sales data to develop more accurate forecasts, quickly and without a ton of manual analytics work.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers are calling this feature the Northstar system\u2019s \u201cvirtual data scientist,\u201d (or VDS) and it sounds like it could actually replace the human equivalent, especially in settings where one would never actually be readily available or resourced anyway. Your average doctor\u2019s office doesn\u2019t have a dedicated data scientist headcount, for instance, and nor do most small- to medium-sized businesses for that matter. Independently owned and operated coffee shops and retailers definitely wouldn\u2019t otherwise have access to this kind of insight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon, you might not need anything more specialized than a readily accessible touchscreen device and any existing data sets you have access to in order to build powerful prediction tools. A new experiment from MIT and Brown University researchers have added a capability to their \u2018Northstar\u2019 interactive data system that can \u201cinstantly generate machine-learning models\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92799","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}