When Machine Learning Fails

Christopher Teixeira

April 1, 2021

A little about me

Christopher Teixeira

Principal Data Scientist

The MITRE Corporation

• MS in Operations Research from George Mason University
• BS in Mathematics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tell me a little about you

Insert a poll on academic background

What is Machine Learning?

AI vs. Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning

• https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/0*jng0i9svVVe7L7sj
• https://towardsdatascience.com/artificial-intelligence-vs-machine-learning-vs-deep-learning-2210ba8cc4ac

What can it be used for?

Machine Learning can be great

• Helps you

Sometimes things go wrong…

• highlight a couple news stories
• https://incidentdatabase.ai/discover/index.html?s=&incident_id=34&source_domain=theregister.co.uk

Sometimes they go even worse…

• https://incidentdatabase.ai/discover/index.html?s=&incident_id=5&source_domain=theregister.co.uk

What are some causes for these issues?

• https://xkcd.com/1838/

How can you avoid these?

Thank you

Christopher Teixeira
cteixeira@mitre.org

linkedin.com/in/christopherteixeira @CT_Analytics