Good, Bad, and Programmed
unofficial intelligence17 June, 2016Do you really worry about robots, in your heart of hearts? Do you fear the eventual AI revolution, the replacement of all humanity, the end of our days at the […]
Resistance is Futile
unofficial intelligence3 June, 2016I am a computer nerd, like my father before me. I grew up writing Pokemon games with coding languages like GW and Visual Basic, I make Excel spreadsheets for fun, […]
Fishing by Numbers
unofficial intelligence6 May, 2016I met with a data scientist so that I might get a better understanding of what it actually means to teach code to learn. We sat in a cabin without […]
Learning From Learning
unofficial intelligence22 April, 2016There are moments in reading about the struggles of AI I’m ready to trade in my human card and plug right into the cloud, including news of Microsoft’s newly shut […]
A Minor Clone War
unofficial intelligence8 April, 2016One interesting trope in AI science fiction is a customization process. The user (the human, of course, but let’s not mince words: use has always been the operative verb with […]
The Robin Theory
unofficial intelligence25 March, 2016This month in Humans Overreacting to AI Breakthroughs, the contingent of folks who obsess over Facebook privacy yet still manage to get their email hacked twice a year are unsettled […]
Trust Falls
unofficial intelligence26 February, 2016I have ruined otherwise normal conversations at parties determining who is afraid of a robot takeover. There is always one in any group of five or so who is (either […]
Robot Love
unofficial intelligence12 February, 2016Happy Valentine’s Day, nerds. No special someone this year? Not to worry: artificial intelligence is here for you (or, at least, it will be in your lifetime.) The idea of […]
Turing Tests
unofficial intelligence29 January, 2016If you were born before Clinton and after Carter you probably knew of SmarterChild; you may have messaged it. SmarterChild was a chatterbot designed to help children with homework. Kids […]
