Here you can find interesting articles and videos about AI and machine learning.
Jeremy Howard: The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn
What happens when we teach a computer how to learn? Technologist Jeremy Howard shares some surprising new developments in the fast-moving field of deep learning…
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Nick Bostrom: What happens when our computers get smarter than we are?
Artificial intelligence is getting smarter by leaps and bounds — within this century, research suggests, a computer AI could be as “smart” as a human being…
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Stuart Russell: 3 principles for creating safer AI
How can we harness the power of superintelligent AI while also preventing the catastrophe of robotic takeover? As we move closer toward creating all-knowing machines…
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Gary Marcus: Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal
Although deep learning has historical roots going back decades, neither the term “deep learning” nor the approach was popular just over five years ago, when the field was reignited…
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Eliza Strickland: How IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care
After its triumph on Jeopardy!, IBM’s AI seemed poised to revolutionize medicine. Doctors are still waiting…
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Jason Kottke: The Lebowski Theorem of Machine Superintelligence
When warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence, many doomsayers cite philosopher Nick Bostrom’s paperclip maximizer thought experiment…
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Sebastian Thrun: What AI is — and isn’t
Educator and entrepreneur Sebastian Thrun wants us to use AI to free humanity of repetitive work and unleash our creativity. In an inspiring, informative conversation…
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Sam Harris: Can we build AI without losing control over it?
Scared of superintelligent AI? You should be, says neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris — and not just in some theoretical way…
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Tim Urban: The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
The reason this post took three weeks to finish is that as I dug into research on Artificial Intelligence, I could not believe what I was reading. It hit me pretty quickly that what’s happening in the world of AI is…
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Anthony Goldbloom: The jobs we’ll lose to machines — and the ones we won’t
Machine learning isn’t just for simple tasks like assessing credit risk and sorting mail anymore — today, it’s capable of far more complex applications…
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Tom Gruber: How AI can enhance our memory, work and social lives
How smart can our machines make us? Tom Gruber, co-creator of Siri, wants to make ‘humanistic AI’ that augments and collaborates with us…
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Garry Kasparov: Don’t fear intelligent machines. Work with them
We must face our fears if we want to get the most out of technology — and we must conquer those fears if we want to get the best out of humanity…
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Ken Jennings: Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all
Trivia whiz Ken Jennings has made a career as a keeper of facts; he holds the longest winning streak in history on the US quiz show Jeopardy. But in 2011, he played a challenge match against IBM’s supercomputer Watson — and lost…
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Blaise Agüera y Arcas: How computers are learning to be creative
We’re on the edge of a new frontier in art and creativity — and it’s not human. Blaise Agüera y Arcas, principal scientist at Google, works with deep neural networks for machine perception…
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