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Designing A.I.

On diversity, design methods, and shaping the future of A.I. The Reemergence of A.I. Every day we read about new developments in Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). Significant advances in machine learning, natural language processing, image recognition, and a myriad of other A.I. technologies are being used to solve previously insurmountable problems. And although these technologies are […]

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What does an A.I. think of Clinton, Trump and the RNC?

We’ve heard plenty from pollsters, pundits and politicos on what people think about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, but what does an AI (artificial intelligence) think of them? But some background first. Why am I doing this? AI is an emerging technology that’s on the verge of being deeply incorporated into much of our daily lives. […]

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An Artificial Intelligence Reading List for 2016

When I was an undergrad my favorite course was Introduction to AI, taught by Ira Pohl. When I graduated, I went to work in the AI department at BBN. I was working on, then state-or-the-art, projects involving machine learning, genetic algorithms, and expert systems. But that work, in the 80s, the end of a boom […]