“Advanced machine learning, also known as artificial intelligence or just A.I., holds far greater promise than unsettling headlines about computers beating humans at games like Jeopardy!, chess, checkers, and Go. Ultimately, humans and machines will work together—not against one another.”
Read: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella : Humans and A.I. can work together to solve society’s challenges.
“The controversy about the human curators behind Facebook Trends has grown, since the allegations made last week by Gizmodo.”
Read: Algorithms, clickworkers, and the befuddled fury around Facebook Trends
“In a study published online March 14 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers looked at four widely-used tech assistants to try and find out how the increasingly ubiquitous tools responded to various health crises.”
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“Tay was born pure. She loved E.D.M., in particular the work of Calvin Harris. She used words like “swagulated” and almost never didn’t call it “the internets.” She was obsessed with abbrevs and the prayer-hands emoji.”
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“George Hotz welcomed a packed room at SXSW yesterday for his panel “I Built a Better Self-Driving Car Than Tesla” with an intro as buzzy as the event’s title. Hotz introduced his company, comma.”
Read: George Hotz promised to end capitalism in a manic sermon at SXSW
“This is a part of series of discussions around the release of the #ProjectDiane report, a report on digitalundivided’s proprietary research study about the state of Black women in tech entrepreneurship in the United States. The report will be released on Feb 9th, 2016.”
“Microsoft’s brain is now available for anyone to use in their apps. The company has open sourced the artificial intelligence framework it uses to power speech recognition in its Cortana digital assistant and Skype Translate applications.”
Read: Microsoft Open Sources Its Artificial Brain to One-Up Google
“Howard University fights to join the tech boom. Photographs by Christopher Gregory From Legand Burge, the chair of Howard University’s computer science department. In the fall of 2013 a young software engineer named Charles Pratt arrived on Howard University’s campus in Washington.”
“Last week at CES, I got to try a haptic jacket straight out of Ready Player One. It’s gotten glowing reviews from testers, but in order to work, its electrode-lined fabric needs a direct connection with your body. On anyone built roughly like its male creators, it looks like a snug wetsuit.”
Read: Building for virtual reality? Don’t forget about women
“Teegan Lexcen was born in August with a heart and lung defect so unusual that doctors had never seen it before. She has only one lung, and almost all of the left half of her heart is missing.”