CategoryMachine Learning
Can simple probabilities outperform deep learning?
One musician found it was so
Google branches out into politics
Unfortunately, the only political model it would likely know is: One-party stateThe unchallenged manipulation of search engine results during elections is a new phenomenon made possible by the domination of the internet by a few big players.
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How do robots “care”?
Emotional robots’ cameras and sensors respond to your facial expressions, tone of voice, and movementsCritics of the emotional robotics industry say that the view of emotions (assumed in the industry to be only six) is oversimplified and that the robots are likely to promote stereotypes.
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Can machines really learn?
A parable of a book that learned
What is Learning Anyway?
Machine learning specialist George Montañez reflects on the question in a video excerpt from the CNAI gala
“Artificial” Artificial Intelligence
What happens when AI needs a human I?Artificial intelligence often fails at crucial points. It must then be supplemented by human intelligence. Many software systems that look to their users like pure advanced artificial intelligence hide a lot of human effort behind a technological mask.
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Slaughterbots: How far is too far?
And how will we know if we have crossed a line?
Karl Marx’s Eerie AI Prediction
He felt that capitalism would fall when machines replaced human labor
Imagining Life after Google
Reviewers of George Gilder's new book weigh inIf we have simply taken the big software, hardware, and social media companies who dominate our lives for granted, the reactions from the business world to Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy should give us a lot to think about.
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Robogeddon!! Pause.
Wait. This just in: AI is NOT killing all our jobs
Ethics for an Information Society
Because machines can’t learn to solve their own ethical problems
AI Tools for Mass Manipulation?
Machine learning can unleash a perfect storm of malice, experts warn
Sometimes the ‘Bots Turn Out To Be Humans
That “lifelike” effect was easier to come by than some might think
Will AI Liberate or Enslave Developing Countries?
Perhaps that depends on who gets there first with the technology
Who Creates Information in a Market?
Do exchange-traded funds (ETFs)' algorithms make personally gathering information obsolete?Algorithmic strategies can only be as good as the information that goes into them. Ignoring how the information is created causes us to misunderstand the dynamics of value creation. Algorithms can leverage information, they can’t create it.
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Why machines can’t think as we do
As philosopher Michael Polanyi noted, much that we know is hard to codify or automate
Why Can’t Machines Learn Simple Tasks?
They can learn to play chess more easily than to walk
Better medicine through machine learning?
Data can be a dump or a gold mine