Tag: AI Delusion (book)

Group of kids walk over high log in the forest finding balance with hands one after another view from bellow

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News
Date
September 9, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
AI Delusion (book), Edward Feser, Featured, Gary Smith}

If Computers Are Intelligent, Climbing a Tree Is Flying

_{That, says Edward Feser, is the take-home message from Gary Smith’s book, The AI Delusion} _{News
September 9, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

The book’s message is that “the real danger of artificial intelligence is that it will remain dumber than we are,” but we will think it is smarter.

AI Delusions: A Statistics Expert Sets Us Straight

_{We learn why Watson's programmers did not want certain Jeopardy questions asked} _{News
June 14, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence}

If you ask about anything that’s a puzzle, joke, riddle, or sarcasm that you can’t look up in Wikipedia, computers are helpless.

1: IBM’s Watson Is NOT Our New Computer Overlord

_{AI help, not hype: It won at Jeopardy (with specially chosen “softball” questions) but is not the hoped-for aid to cancer specialists} _{Robert J. Marks
December 31, 2018

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Artificial Intelligence}

One problem that has dogged Watson has nothing to do with AI or medicine. The journalism around the introduction of projects like Watson is long on the Gee Whiz! An Electronic Brain! It Won at Jeopardy! And it is short on systematic inquiry as to outcomes versus goals. Read More ›

Data graph on monitor showing correlation

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Robert J. Marks
Date
December 17, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning, Social Factors

Tagged
AI Delusion (book), Big Data, Featured, Gary Smith, Longform, Machine Learning, medical data, medical research, Statistical fallacies}

Study Shows Eating Raisins Causes Plantar Warts

_{Sure. Because, if you torture a Big Data enough, it will confess to anything} _{Robert J. Marks
December 17, 2018

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Machine Learning, Social Factors}

Enormous data sets compiled by Big Data methods have a higher probability of meaningless correlations than smaller ones compiled by traditional methods. More than ever, common sense is needed. And common sense only comes from programmers writing their own common sense into the software. Read More ›