[…] Crotty have written about this, so I’ll not dwell, except to point out that the rise and profusion of increasingly smart Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered info bots (very common on Twitter at least) is very much a double-edged sword. I do believe […]
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[…] is essentially an artistic experiment in cognitive computing. (See this brief write-up for background.) How does a combination of algorithms, an artificial intelligence — a ‘bot — see and interpret works of art? If not constrained by how human minds have done […]
[…] ago, Sebastian Thrun brought the MOOC to general public awareness when he launched an introductory MOOC on the subject of artificial intelligence, and reactions to the MOOC’s sudden prominence were both widespread and highly varied: MOOCs “pose a great threat to… […]
[…] That would sound more audacious if he hadn’t already succeeded at attracting 160,000 students to a free online course in artificial intelligence that he offered while still in his teaching position at Stanford. Five hundred thousand is a potentially game-changing number […]
[…] being eliminated or chipped away as computers intrude quite naturally and capably. As computers climb the ranks from calculator to artificial intelligence, jobs at various levels are lost or severely curtailed. The first signs of intrusion into our worlds was the […]
[…] quality of the review process. The increased volume of article outputs places additional pressure on an already stretched system. Whileartificial intelligence (AI) offers the potential to expand the reviewer pool, refine the automated matching of manuscripts with suitable reviewers, there’s […]