Believe Half of What You See? Maybe not.
In an era of rampant cries of fake news, the aphorism that instructs us to “believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear” has engendered an appropriate amount of healthy skepticism.…
Tag Archives: artificial intelligence
Will AI Kill Programming Jobs?
I’ve heard a lot of people claim lately that artificial intelligence – or AI – will make programming jobs obsolete in the future. In fact, the book The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World, which I wrote about last month, makes…
Artificial Intelligence? Yes. Artificial Humanity? No.
I recently saw a Facebook friend decry the ubiquitous end-of-year cards Facebook had created for each of its users, the ones that allow people to share the highlights of their year in the style of an…
Singularity is Still a Ways Away
Computer Science pioneer John Von Neumann, who designed the architecture that characterizes nearly every computer in use today, long ago coined the term singularity to describe the moment in time when artificial intelligence would exceed…
Building a Better Gamer
A Google software engineer named Tom Murphy recently created a program that learns how to beat various classic video games like Super Mario Bros. and Tetris. He explains his work, which he submitted as a…
Making Machines Intelligent
In April of this year, President Obama announced the BRAIN initiative. BRAIN stands for “Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies”. The program, a $100 million investment into research aimed at figuring out how the brain…