Machine Learning explainability refers to understanding and interpreting the decisions and predictions made by a machine learning model. Explainability is crucial for ensuring the trustworthiness and transparency of machine learning models, particularly in high-stakes situations where the consequences of incorrect predictions can be significant. Today, several techniques are available to improve the explainability of a […]

An important aspect of practicing machine learning in a responsible manner is understanding how models perform differently for different groups of people, for instance with different races, ages, or genders. Protected groups frequently have fewer instances in a training set, contributing to larger error rates for those groups. Some models may produce very different average […]

Note: this is a guest blog post by Jaafar Almusaad. How Much is My Property Worth? This is the million-dollar question – both figuratively and literally. Traditionally, qualified property valuers are tasked to answer this question. It’s a lengthy and costly process, but more critically, it’s inconsistent and largely subjective. Mind you, valuation is an […]

Responsible AI is paramount when we think about models that impact humans, either directly or indirectly. All the models that are making decisions about people, be that about creditworthiness, insurance claims, HR functions, and even self-driving cars, have a huge impact on humans.  We recently hosted James Orton, Parul Pandey, and Sudalai Rajkumar for a […]

Since we began our journey making tools for explainable AI (XAI) in late 2016, we’ve learned many lessons, and often the hard way. Through headlines, we’ve seen others grapple with the difficulties of deploying AI systems too. Whether it’s: a healthcare resource allocation system that likely discriminated against millions of black people data privacy violations […]

How an Economics Nobel Prize could revolutionize insurance and lending Part 2: The Business Value of a Better Model Introduction In Part 1, we proposed better revenue and managing regulatory requirements with machine learning (ML). We made the first part of the argument by showing how gradient boosting machines (GBM), a type of ML, can […]

How an Economics Nobel Prize could revolutionize insurance and lending Part 1: A New Solution to an Old Problem Introduction Insurance and credit lending are highly regulated industries that have relied heavily on mathematical modeling for decades. In order to provide explainable results for their models, data scientists and statisticians in both industries relied heavily […]

INTRODUCTION As fields like explainable AI and ethical AI have continued to develop in academia and industry, we have seen a litany of new methodologies that can be applied to improve our ability to trust and understand our machine learning and deep learning models. As a result of this, we’ve seen several buzzwords emerge. In […]

In response to the wake of the pandemic called COVID-19, H2O.ai organized a panel discussion to cover AI in healthcare, and some best practices to put in place in order to achieve better outcomes. The attendees had many questions that we did not have the time to cover thoroughly throughout the course of that 1-hour […]

We are excited to be named a Visionary in the new Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services (Feb 2020), and have been recognized for both our completeness of vision and ability to execute in the emerging market for cloud-hosted artificial intelligence (AI) services for application developers. This is the second Gartner MQ that […]