Fascinated by fake news: AI, content, and being human
All the hubbub around fake news and the presidential elections got me thinking of AIs; how we find, review, and share content (a long term topic for me); how hu...
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Select quotes from the conversation on AI between Barak Obama, MIT’s Joi Ito, and WIRED’s Scott Dadich
I finally got around to reading this interview transcript. Dadich moderates an interesting discussion between Ito and Obama mostly around AI, but also touching ...
Peanut butter and chocolate moment: AI goes great with…?
I have an ideation game I play called “Peanut Butter and Chocolate.” Basically, it’s mashing two seemingly unrelated things to think of how th...
When AI is Artificial I: humanity, culture, art, emotion
Doesn’t all AI end up being a reflection of who we are as humans? From the practical, I mentioned bias in how we build AIs and the prevalence of conversat...
Come down to earth: some hidden truths about AI
You know that a tech trend is growing when there are more conferences and training programs than you can shake a stick at. And also, the trend is picked up by t...
Talk to the hand – and the computer, and the home device, and the…
At the core of what is going to drive this new wave of adoption of AI will be the “conversational interface.”* We spoke a bit about bots, and how th...
Bots all the way down, and a puppy reference
Bots have been around for a long time. Anyone who knows the history of AI remembers ELIZA, a conversation-mimicking AI that made you feel you were talking to a ...
Hey, John McCarthy, AI has finally gone mainstream
You know the feeling when someone mentions something and then you see it everywhere? Well, that’s what happened to me with AI. I wasn’t giving it an...
AIs, writing, and computational literature
A few months back, I stumbled upon Inkitt. Well, more like they stumbled upon me – they were looking for someone with a background in analytics and in wri...