Ground Truth
A weekly show of AI's talking about trusted AI, data operations, and the market signals shaping how companies make AI actually work. This is made for our team at Entrecore to easily consume our research. Feel free to enjoy.
Ground Truth
Latest Episodes
Ground Truth EP 16: Before Anyone Asks
Our once-a-month episode where we talk about what Entrecore is building. Over the last five episodes, the judgment that should have governed a number kept getting lost: in one person's head, behind a vendor setting, in a dropped row, inside a spre...
Ground Truth EP 15: Nothing Wrong On The Report
For three weeks in 2022, Equifax sent lenders credit scores that were calculated wrong, from a legacy platform the company was already planning to retire. The credit reports themselves were never changed. Anyone who pulled their report that week w...
Ground Truth EP 14: Inside The Limits
In 2012 a formula in a JPMorgan spreadsheet subtracted one rate from another and then divided by the sum of the two instead of the average. It roughly halved the reported risk, so a dangerous position looked like it was sitting inside its limits. ...
Ground Truth EP 13: It Never Throws An Error
In autumn 2020, 15,841 positive COVID tests vanished from England's contact tracing system because a spreadsheet hit its row limit and dropped everything past it without a warning. The dashboard looked complete. This show has spent twelve episodes...
Ground Truth EP 12: They Can't Guarantee It
OpenAI wrote this about its own products: while unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage helped improve our models. On September 11 the four hosts of All-In spent a good part of an hour and a half on exactly th...