Roundup for June 26, 2015
Do bot experience road rage? Two self-driving cars nearly collided when a google car cut off one of its rivals. A team at the University of Lincoln in the UK is aiming to turn smartphones into seeing eye dogs. Quart’s … Continue reading Roundup for June 26, 2015
Roundup for June 25, 2015
Artificial intelligence research is crossing the Rubicon of getting computers to read and understand novels, essays, and other written-by-human-for-humans natural language text, writes Cade Metz in WIRED, with Facebook coming up with an app its says can answer reading comprehension … Continue reading Roundup for June 25, 2015
Roundup for June 24, 2015
Could Apple’s relative squeamishness about strip mining every aspect of its customer’s personal info to feed its machine learning algorithms hobble it when it comes to competing with Google’s A.I.? Yes, says C.I.O.’s Matt Kapok, because we can’t have nice … Continue reading Roundup for June 24, 2015
Lecture by Martin Ford, author of Rise of the Robots
Wanted to link to an interesting lecture from Martin Ford, author of Rise of the Robots, which came out last month. Ford discusses how his experiences as a successful software developer and entrepreneur tipped him into becoming a prophet of … Continue reading Lecture by Martin Ford, author of Rise of the Robots
Roundup for June 22, 2015
IBM’s Watson not only wants to help companies stop hurricanes, (per Chris Ciaccia), it will also read your palm…well, your posts, anyway, with a new web app that generates an instant personality profile based on an excerpt of your writing. Amazon is using … Continue reading Roundup for June 22, 2015
Weekend Roundup for June 20-21, 2015
Much more to come later, but for now one word: Battlebots! So far, 3D printing is a tech whose potential has been more heralded than its impact has been demonstrated, but one area that’s an exception to that rule is … Continue reading Weekend Roundup for June 20-21, 2015
Roundup for June 19, 2015
In some of the most terrifying A.I. news in recent memory, computers are learning to read…from the Daily Mail. (And CNN). A couple of major Asian tech companies are making a big bet on personal robots, reports Yue Wang in Forbes, … Continue reading Roundup for June 19, 2015
Roundup for June 18, 2015
Google is teaching computers to trip balls. Nah, not really. But it is reverse engineering neural networks, teaching the A.I. to spit back what it sees when it tries to sort through and recognise images, in order to better understand … Continue reading Roundup for June 18, 2015
Can’t Humans And Robots Just Get Along? An Interview with Prof. James E. Young.
James E. Young, an assistant professor at the University of Manitoba, has done a lot of interesting things with robots, from adding puppy tails to them to turning a Roomba into a mood ring, in order to better understand how … Continue reading Can’t Humans And Robots Just Get Along? An Interview with Prof. James E. Young.
Note 2: The Productivity Paradox
Above: A screenshot of the first page of google image results for “productivity”, illustrating that no one has any idea how to illustrate the idea of “productivity.” As I mentioned on the About page, one of the things I’m interested … Continue reading Note 2: The Productivity Paradox
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