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Intelligent Machine Link Roundup August 17, 2015

August 17, 2015 colleenmsullivan

Will the quest for a $15 minimum wage make fast food franchises turn to robots? When a robot screws up, who’s responsible? The law may not have any answers… Interesting analysis piece of the impact of bots on the battlefield: … Continue reading Intelligent Machine Link Roundup August 17, 2015

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Intelligent Machine Links Roundup for August 4, 2015

August 4, 2015August 5, 2015 colleenmsullivan

Interesting look from Bloomberg on how the insurance industry is tackling the threat from driverless cars. (Noah Buhayar, Peter Robinson). Here’s one interesting little paragraph that jumped out at me: Allstate already offers a device that tracks driving behavior so … Continue reading Intelligent Machine Links Roundup for August 4, 2015

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Intelligent Machine Link Roundup for July 29, 2015

July 29, 2015July 29, 2015 colleenmsullivan

First link of the day is a really fascinating interactive crib sheet to explain how machine learning works, from the design team at R2D3, aka Stephanie Yee and Tony Chu. I’m excited to see their follow ups.. Amazon is super … Continue reading Intelligent Machine Link Roundup for July 29, 2015

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Intelligent Machine Link Roundup for July 28, 2015

July 28, 2015 colleenmsullivan

Professor Stephen Hawking is doing an Ask Me Anything session at Reddit — typically the guest respondent spends a few hours answering questions live, but due to Prof. Hawking’s constraints he’s going to be typing out answers over the coming … Continue reading Intelligent Machine Link Roundup for July 28, 2015

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Intelligent Machine Link Roundup for July 27, 2015

July 27, 2015 colleenmsullivan

Inadvertent spotlight on self-driving cars today, with a number of interesting takes: The L.A. Times on the competition to produce the hyper-realistic, 3D, HD maps necessary for self-driving cars (Tracey Lien). Daimler is planning to live-test self driving trucks on German … Continue reading Intelligent Machine Link Roundup for July 27, 2015

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Intelligent Machine Link Roundup for July 24, 2015

July 24, 2015July 24, 2015 colleenmsullivan

When covering this beat, you spend a lot of time trying to demystify the tech and de-terrify the public, and then scientists go and teach a mother robot how to build child bots, evolving them into better and better versions … Continue reading Intelligent Machine Link Roundup for July 24, 2015

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Intelligent Machine Link Roundup for July 23, 2015

July 23, 2015 colleenmsullivan

Internet moderation isn’t usually a matter of life and death…unless your mods are the Secret Service (Josephine Wolff) If you virtually prick us, do we actually bleed? Mark Piesing in the FT on the potential for VR to heal things … Continue reading Intelligent Machine Link Roundup for July 23, 2015

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Roundup of intelligent machine links for July 22, 2015

July 22, 2015July 22, 2015 colleenmsullivan

A case for evolutionary algorithms as A.I.’s next big thing A new study on robot surgery says it’s unclear how many complications — and deaths — it contributes to, says Keith Wagstaff. (Link to the full study). A new startup … Continue reading Roundup of intelligent machine links for July 22, 2015

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Roundup for July 21, 2015

July 21, 2015 colleenmsullivan

Hollywood is forever coming up with new ways to terrify us with the power of smart machines, but this maybe one they haven’t yet hit on: It seems machine learning could make telemarketing more efficient, according to this profile of … Continue reading Roundup for July 21, 2015

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Roundup for July 20, 2015

July 20, 2015July 20, 2015 colleenmsullivan

Can A.I. stop human ingenuity in its tracks? Social media sites hope so, at least when it comes to trolls. Wired’s Davey Alba profiles Twitter et al’s attempts to stop harassment via machine learning, while this blog post at The … Continue reading Roundup for July 20, 2015

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