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Roundup for July 17, 2015

July 17, 2015July 17, 2015 colleenmsullivan

IBM wants to help teachers with its Watson tech, but they’re skeptical (h/t Mary Jo Madda). Meanwhile, it’s tryng to help the rest of us tone it down — or up, as the case may be, with a free app … Continue reading Roundup for July 17, 2015

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Roundup for June 24, 2015

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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

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Roundup for June 22, 2015

June 22, 2015June 22, 2015 colleenmsullivan

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

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Roundup for June 19, 2015

June 19, 2015July 15, 2015 colleenmsullivan

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

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Roundup for June 18, 2015

June 18, 2015July 15, 2015 colleenmsullivan

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

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