End of AI Confusion: XLabs ‘A2I’ Matrix

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What is AI? Quick video summary of the blog. What is artificial intelligence? Is that AI? RandomStartup.ai told me they use AI, but that’s not really AI…is it? I know neural nets are AI. But I want the one with the deep learning, right? What’s deep about it any way, does it write poetry? Speaking of, why does AI play …

Brilliant People, Brilliant Machines: Part 1 — Table Stakes for Humans

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Small step for Humans, Giant Leap for Machines This is the first installment of an ongoing series in which we seek inspiration for improved AI by studying strategies from humanity’s brilliant minds. For the introduction to the series see here. The human being is the most fearsome technology in known existence. We can often accomplish much more by simply giving our …

Brilliant People, Brilliant Machines: Introduction

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You are reading the first installment of a blog series that goes through five steps that brilliant people use to be brilliant, in an attempt to make useful connections with actual and potential methods of improving Artificial Intelligence(AI). In each installment, I break down one thing that brilliant people do and attempt to connect it with actual, or potential AI …

Data Science MUST Grow Up

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Here is How Data science is evolving from a kludgy mess held together by spit, tape and constant effort, into something better. However, there are some fundamental problems at it’s heart that MUST change in order for the field to fulfill its promise of wresting understanding from the ever expanding universe of data we create. For the past 3 years, …

Moore’s Law: Resurrected by Marketing

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Moore’s law has become a sort of mystical talisman in the computing industry. Every few months there is a new round of articles arguing about whether and when Moore’s law will end. In fact, it was only in 2005 when Moore himself finally came out and admitted that his namesake would eventually end. This is puzzling because 1) it was, …