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
