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Alex Lintner

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616 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

So they do that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

They develop the model.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

The lending product goes out.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

People start applying.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

The bank starts paying out the loans.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

And then...

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

Loan losses start coming in.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

People start missing payments.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

So that's a model behavior, because there's a prediction of how much of that will there be.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

If those variables come off, the industry term for that is it's model drift.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

So maybe the loan losses are higher.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

Maybe we're not getting as many people of that age groups.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

Maybe late payments are more than we thought.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

All those kind of metrics, it's called model drift if it comes off.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

We use artificial intelligence when those models drift to prompt the person who has created the model or the oversight department in the financial institution.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

There is model drift.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

Not only do we tell them that there is model drift, we also tell them what variables in their model are the reason for the drift.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

You're missing a data element.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

You set it too low.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'

You set it too high.