Moses: Machines cannot infer semantic business logic without human input
Barr Moses · Unlocking Data Observability with Monte Carlo's Barr Moses · Apr 12, 2022 · at 19:26
Barr Moses, Founder and CEO of Monte Carlo, responds to an audience question about the limits of automated data observability without human domain knowledge.
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“I don't think that a machine can actually infer that we can infer something without knowing that business knowledge. It's not possible, and that's also not what we attempt or attempting to do at Monte Carlo.”
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