If you liked Algorithms of the Mind, you’ll love this: The “dreams” of Google’s AI are equal parts amazing and disturbing. Also read the original Google Research blog post. Related, here’s a compelling example of “seeing with our brains and not with our eyes”, Now Blind Americans Can See with Device Atop Their Tongues. And yes, Google is involved. Christopher Nguyen — https://medium.com/@ctn

Why “Volume, Velocity, and Variety” are wrong Originally published at blog.adatao.com A few weeks ago, Sonal Chokshi of Andreessen Horowitz and I chatted on an a16z podcast. Here’s her summary of that conversation: On this episode of the a16z Podcast, Nguyen puts on his former computer science professor hat to…

What Machine Learning Teaches Us About Ourselves Image: Main Public Library, Nashville, Tennessee — 2014 Originally published at blog.arimo.com. Follow me on Twitter to keep informed of interesting developments on these topics. “Science often follows technology, because inventions give us new ways to think about the world and new phenomena…

A Major Progress Report — Image: Stiltwalkers by Dennis Smith, Foster City, California — 2015 April 30th, 2015 (Originally published at http://arimo.com/blog/) Just as accessibility of the automobile transformed our mobility in the the 20th century, accessibility of data intelligence will transform our minds in the 21st. …

Big Intelligence, from Big Apps on Big Compute on Big Data Image: Westin Hotel, Los Angeles, California — 2014 March 17, 2015 (Originally published at blog.adatao.com) Technology revolutions play out in familiar patterns. And almost always from the bottom up. Remember Web 1.0? That was about browsers and Javascript and…

A Tweeted Bibliography Image: KLIA Terminal C, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia— 2015 Here’s a collection of my tweets on interesting/exciting developments in Deep Learning or Machine Learning in general. It’s in no grand order, but does serve as a convenient reference & provides some context.

When We Can Process Data Flexibly At-Scale, What Will We Want To Do? — Provost & Fawcett Image: Sunset over O’Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois — 2014 Aug 7, 2014 (Originally published at blog.adatao.com) Two years ago, we set out on a journey. The hype around Big Data was fast…

The Story of Apache Spark, From Our Perspective Image: Washington Dulles International Airport, Dulles, Virginia — 2014 June 18, 2014 (Originally published at blog.adatao.com) In early 2012, a group of engineers with background in distributed systems and machine learning came together to form Adatao (ah-DAY-tao). We saw a major unsolved…