Use case assessment: Which AI life-cycle stage is this?
Deciding whether a proposed AI project should proceed is the use-case assessment stage.
The question
Before any model is built, a team evaluates whether a proposed AI project is appropriate, justified, and worth pursuing at all. Which AI life-cycle stage is this?
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- Incident management, where a realized AI failure or harm is investigated, contained and remediated.Plausible but wrong: this reacts to an event during operation, not to initial project evaluation.
- Use case assessment, where the suitability and justification of a proposed AI project are evaluated. ✓Correct: judging whether an AI project should proceed is the use-case assessment stage at the front of the life cycle.
- Training and testing, where a built model's performance is measured and validated before its release.Plausible but wrong: this occurs after a model is developed, not at project justification.
- Deployment and monitoring, where a live system's ongoing performance is tracked after it goes live.Plausible but wrong: this is a post-release stage, well after use-case assessment.
The trap
Confusing the up-front use-case assessment with later evaluative stages like training/testing or monitoring. How to remember it
Deciding whether a proposed AI project should proceed is the use-case assessment stage.
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