Published in Towards Data Science·Nov 6, 2019Why I Donate All of My Book’s Proceeds to Girls Who CodeDoing a small part to help close a gender gap — Few, if any, of my classmates shared my fascination with the Mark I Computer that was on display in our university’s Science Center. It is hard to blame them. Towering at 8 feet and filled with rotary switches, crystal diodes, and tangled wires, the Mark I resembles a prop from…Girls Who Code6 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Sep 6, 2019What Distinguishes Us from AI?Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence complicate the belief that our intellect—even our creativity—will remain unrivaled — The belief in our distinctiveness is central to human self-understanding; however, time and again, what was seen as our distinguishing attribute has proven to be a mirage. For millennia, humans have asserted themselves as superior to other living forms. From Mesopotamia to China, the mythologies of ancient civilizations traced humankind’s…Artificial Intelligence7 min read
Published in HackerNoon.com·Jan 29, 2019Artificial CreativityIntroduction to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and their potential — Teaching Computers Creativity It started in a pub. Ian Goodfellow and his fellow doctoral students at the University of Montreal met to celebrate the completion of the 2014 academic year. Their conversation focused on the frontier of AI research: synthetic data generation; specifically, approaches that would allow a computer to produce realistic-looking images…Artificial Intelligence6 min read
