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
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
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
Does it matter, that a robot is just a computer with arms? That seems to me to be the core of an interesting debate breaking out in the legal world. Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, … Continue reading Further Reading: Arms and the Metal Man, or the Challenge Bots Pose to the Law
Wearable fitness devices are already generating more data than the firms that make them know how to deal with, says Sophie Charara, but machine learning techniques may soon be poised to put it to use. Meanwhile, two Indian startups are … Continue reading Roundup for July 7, 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
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
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
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
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
