Are AI Assistants the Face of Singularity?
No offense, but your mental image of AI is probably adorably simple. But 2001: A Space Odyssey was made an embarrassingly-long time ago—time to stop picturing the blinking...
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Byte-by-Byte: The Healthcare Switch
Your news feed is filled with chatter about the rising costs of healthcare. Insurance premiums are skyrocketing, and medications cost the arm and leg you were trying to...
When Will AI Actually Outdo Us?
Do you ever get the feeling that all these self-proclaimed “experts in AI” don’t actually know what they’re talking about? Considering that we don’t even know how intelligence...
Your Brain On Distributed Deep Learning
Brains are wonderful and strange. The human brain is a great greyish-pink mess of neurons. It sits in your skull, rippling with tiny shocks of electricity, constantly creating...
A Simple Guide to Artificial Intelligence
Maybe the artificial intelligence conversation makes you feel tired and jaded. Maybe you’re tired of tech talk in general. Maybe looking at everyone on their smartphone on lunch...
AI took my job, now what?
Let’s say you’re a banker. You went to school for it, you started at the bottom, and now you enjoy a mid-tier salaried position. You have a desk—your...
In The Future, You Won’t Hate Your Job
Going to work in the future might not be like going to work at all. Look at what office work is like today: your coworkers probably already have...
The Many Flavors of Bot
Lots of bot talk going around, isn’t there? Don’t get lost in the robotic shuffle. Here’s a breakdown of all the breeds of AI helping us navigate our...
Why Bother Going to College, When You Have Siri?
How much time did you spend filling in tiny bubbles on standardized tests? And how much of that time did you think, “this is pointless?” It’s no secret...
Weapon of Math Destruction
You’ve heard the A-word. Maybe you first learned what an algorithm was in math class, but no doubt by now you’ve noticed since then that its usage has...