Why does AI still suck and can it suck less?

[epistemic status: I’m an amateur researcher. This article is partly me explaining the challenges of my own domain to myself.]

I recently got an email from a student asking why Artificial Intelligences (AIs) aren’t regularly…

How Machine Learning Beat the World’s Best Go Player

Go is the oldest board game that people still play today. Interestingly, it’s also the last game where the best human players could beat the best computers–until last week. That was when DeepMind’s Alpha Go beat Lee Sedol, the best Go…

Man vs. machine

I recently had time to catch up on the incredibly interesting battle between Google’s AlphaGo and Lee Sedol. AlphaGo, developed by DeepMind which was acquired by Google, developed a hyper sophisticated AI that specializes in the Chinese game Go. The technology behind AlphaGo is fascinating and…

AlphaGo“ごとき”で騒ぎすぎ

GoogleのDeepMindが開発したAlphaGoが囲碁の世界トッププロ棋士であるイセドルに買ったもんだから世の中は終末論やなんやで大騒ぎなわけで。

もちろんAlphaGoは凄いですよ。何といってもDeepMindはDeep Learningの研究で数える程しかいない最前線をいく研究者を何人も抱えてると言われていて、そこにGoogleの資金力と何よりもデータ量。凄くないわけないですよ。

#14 Origins

Let’s do a quick experiment.

Let’s imagine sending “What’s up” to a friend.

Using any major texting app, it will take a minimum of 8 taps to type what’s up. It’s 6 taps for the letters, one for space, and one to send the message. 8 taps.