“Stop Trying To Be Creative”
“I recently finished a story I’d spent several months obsessing over. When I pitched the piece to my editor, I knew that I’d found a worthy subject, but I couldn’t quite articulate what the story was about.”
03
May
Tag Archives: machine learning
12
Apr
“Magic AI: these are the optical illusions that trick, fool, and flummox computers”
“There’s a scene in William Gibson’s 2010 novel Zero History, in which a character embarking on a high-stakes raid dons what the narrator refers to as the “ugliest T-shirt” in existence — a garment which renders him invisible to CCTV.”
Read: Magic AI: these are the optical illusions that trick, fool, and flummox computers
12
Apr
“The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI”
“Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey.”
30
Mar
“How artificial intelligence can predict suicide attempts before they occur”
“When horrible news — like the 2015 Paris attack, or Robin Williams’s suicide — breaks, crisis counseling services often get a deluge of calls from people dealing with despair. Deciding whom to help first can be a life-or-death decision.”
Read: How artificial intelligence can predict suicide attempts before they occur
24
Mar
“Caroline Sinders on Ethical Product Design for Machine Learning”
“For the past two years, I’ve worked as a machine learning design researcher. Machine learning is programming that learns from user inputs and adapts and improves over time. It’s my humble belief that machine learning and artificial intelligence is going to radically change product design.”
Read: Caroline Sinders on Ethical Product Design for Machine Learning
16
Mar
“Google is teaching search algorithms to better spot offensive, factually incorrect results”
“Google is giving thousands of contractors who normally evaluate search results a new, additional task: help the company downrank blatantly upsetting, offensive, and false content. Search Engine Land has a thorough explainer on the updated guidelines used by Google’s quality raters.”
Read: Google is teaching search algorithms to better spot offensive, factually incorrect results
08
Mar
“Google can now recognize objects in videos using machine learning”
“Fei-Fei Li, chief scientist of artificial intelligence and machine learning at Google Cloud, came on stage at Google’s Next Cloud conference today to talk about the current and next-generation applications of AI that Google’s working on.”
Read: Google can now recognize objects in videos using machine learning
23
Feb
“Google just made its troll-detecting software available to developers”
“Google’s Jigsaw unit, as part of a larger effort to battle online trolling, said earlier today that it was releasing a new tool called Perspective, software that uses machine learning to detect harassment and abuse online.”
Read: Google just made its troll-detecting software available to developers
31
Jan
“Media Lab student wins national award for fighting bias in machine learning – MIT Media Lab”
“Before coming to the Media Lab, Buolamwini earned a BS in computer science as a Stamps President’s Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a master’s in learning and technology as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, England.”
Read: Media Lab student wins national award for fighting bias in machine learning – MIT Media Lab
25
Jan
“The poker-playing AI is getting smarter and the humans are getting tired”
“Today begins week three of the poker tournament between Libratus, an AI system built by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, and four of the world’s top pros. While the humans plan to soldier on, a gallows humor has taken hold.”
Read: The poker-playing AI is getting smarter and the humans are getting tired