Tag: ai

• We Are Here To Create

  April 1, 2018

  We Are Here To Create » The question I always ask myself, just like any human being, is who am I and why do I exist? Who are we as… more ›

• Steps to autonomy

  March 29, 2018

  Steps to autonomy » The standard way to talk about autonomous cars, shown in this diagram, is to talk about levels. L1 is the cruise control in your father’s car. more ›

• Is This Mysterious Silicon Valley Company Helping…

  March 20, 2018

  Is This Mysterious Silicon Valley Company Helping The NSA Spy On Americans? » Last night we learned about PRISM, a classified National Security Agency program that involves huge, wide-ranging data… more ›

• When an AI finally kills someone, who will be…

  March 18, 2018

  When an AI finally kills someone, who will be responsible? – MIT Technology Review more ›

• Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at…

  March 13, 2018

  Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You) » OUR eyes are fleshy things, and for most of human history our visual culture has also been made of fleshy things.… more ›

• new-aesthetic: Google Researchers Are Learning…

  March 8, 2018

  new-aesthetic: Google Researchers Are Learning How Machines Learn – The New York Times “Even seeing part of how a decision was made can give you a lot of insight into… more ›

• Inside Amazon's Artificial Intelligence Flywheel

  March 6, 2018

  Inside Amazon's Artificial Intelligence Flywheel » In early 2014, Srikanth Thirumalai met with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Thirumalai, a computer scientist who’d left IBM in 2005 to head Amazon’s recommendations… more ›

• Stop Saying 'Smart Cities'

  February 14, 2018

  Stop Saying 'Smart Cities' » Digital stardust won’t magically make future cities more affordable or resilient. The term “smart city” is interesting yet not important, because nobody defines it. “Smart”… more ›

• Smart homes and vegetable peelers

  February 5, 2018

  Smart homes and vegetable peelers » My answers: yes, maybe and no. My grandparents could probably have told you how many electric motors they owned. There were one or two… more ›

• Title: Audio Adversarial Examples: Targeted…

  January 29, 2018

  Title: Audio Adversarial Examples: Targeted Attacks on Speech-to-Text » Authors: Nicholas Carlini, David Wagner Abstract: We construct targeted audio adversarial examples on automatic speech recognition. Given any audio waveform, we… more ›