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David O'Neill

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Professor of AI/Policy, Gordon School of Business, Swiss Institute of Artificial Intelligence

David O’Neill is a Professor of AI/Policy at the Gordon School of Business, SIAI, based in Switzerland. His work explores the intersection of AI, quantitative finance, and policy-oriented educational design, with particular attention to executive-level and institutional learning frameworks.

In addition to his academic role, he oversees the operational and financial administration of SIAI’s education programs in Europe, contributing to governance, compliance, and the integration of AI methodologies into policy and investment-oriented curricula.


David O'Neill
MSc AI/Data Science vs. Boot Camp for AI

Boot camp is for software programming without mathematical trainingMSc is a track for PhD, with in-depth scientific research written in the language of math and stat

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David O'Neill
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc - impossible challenges in finding causality in data science

Data Science can find correlation but not causalityIn stat, no causal but high correlation is called 'Spurious regression'Hallucinations in LLMs are repsentative examples of spurious correlation Imagine two twin kids living in the neighborhood. One prefers to play outside day and night, while the other mostly sticks to his video games. After a year later, doctors find that the gamer boy is much healthier, thus conclude that playing outside is bad for growing children's health.

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