Data Brew Season 3 Episode 3: 3 T’s to Securing AI Systems: Tests, tests, and more tests
Data Brew by DatabricksShow Notes
For our third season, we focus on how leaders use data for change. Whether it’s building data teams or using data as a constructive catalyst, we interview subject matter experts from industry to dive deeper into these topics. What does it mean to make your machine learning system “production-ready”? Yaron Singer walks us through the infrastructure, testing procedures, and more that help make ML systems ready for the real world in this episode of Data Brew. See more at databricks.com/data-brew
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