Yoda: MIT Hypes Artificial Intelligence — All Ying, No Yang

Good ying, no yang…. Unique computer system developed at MIT aims to get the humans out of data analysis A new system developed by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) can surpass the smartest people in the world. It aims to exclude the human element out of the data …

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Begins to Understand Very High Cost of Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Google: Technical Debt Has Implications for Some AI Cheerleaders If you are interested in smart software, you may want to read “Machine Learning: the High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt.” I like the credit card analogy. It combines big costs with what some folks see as a something-for-nothing feature of the modern world. … …

Berto Jongman: Fear Artificial Stupidity Not Artificial Intelligence

Fear artificial stupidity, not artificial intelligence Stephen Hawking thinks computers may surpass human intelligence and take over the world. We won’t ever be silicon slaves, insists an AI expert Mark Bishop in NewScientist It is not often that you are obliged to proclaim a much-loved genius wrong, but in his alarming prediction on artificial intelligence …

Stephen E. Arnold: A Balanced View of “Artificial Intelligence” — Elementary, Not a Threat — Most, Including Factiva, Have Missed the Boat…

Artificial Intelligence: Duh? What? I have been following the “AI will kill us”, the landscape of machine intelligence craziness, and “Artificial Intelligence Isn’t a Threat—Yet.” The most recent big thinking on this subject appears in the Wall Street Journal, an organization in need of any type of intelligence: Machine, managerial, fiscal, online, and sci-fi. Harsh? …

Stephen E. Arnold: Big Data & Artificial Intelligence — Worse Than Gambling

Looking for an AI Silver Bullet to Make Software Smart? Keep Looking Here in Harrod’s Creek, Kentucky there is not too much chatter about machine learning. It is hunting season. Time to get out the Barrett Automatic Rifle and go hunting for varmints. Sundown yesterday when calm returned to the hollow, I read “Machine-Learning Maestro …

Eagle: Will Artificial Intelligence Lead to Extinction of Humanity? Would You Trust Your Life to the Weakest Line of Code?

Scientists warn the rise of AI will lead to extinction of humankind (NaturalNews) Everything you and I are doing right now to try to save humanity and the planet probably won’t matter in a hundred years. That’s not my own conclusion; it’s the conclusion of computer scientist Steve Omohundro, author of a new paper published …