In this week’s curation: AI isn’t always the right tool, MSN replaces humans with AI, a bracelet that detects you have COVID-19, China uses AI to launch domestic brands, Professional Services companies cut costs with AI, using synthetic data to reduce AI bias, and an AI enabled “can’t miss” basketball goal.

Plus: An educational moment on processing extremely large DataFrames (we are talking billions of rows) in seconds.

When not to use machine learning or AI (Towards Data Science, 5/29/2020)

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MSN to replace dozens of news production workers with AI (The Seattle Times, 5/29/2020)

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AI bracelet predicts COVID-19 three days early (AINews, 6/2/2020)

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China is using AI to launch domestic brands (MIT Technology Review, 6/3/2020)

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Cutting costs with AI (Emerj, 5/25/2020)

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Using Synthetic Data to reduce AI bias (Towards Data Science, 5/18/2020)

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Super fun AI basketball goal (er, backboard) project (Business Insider, 5/19/2020)

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Education:

Process a DataFrame with billions of rows in seconds (Towards Data Science, 6/1/2020)