To be honest, when I’m crawling my RSS feeds for trends for OPLIN’s weekly 4Cast blog, artificial intelligence is the one that makes me the most nervous. Aside from the many films warning about the potential dangers of AI, it does seem to me that the technology is moving far faster than human capability to absorb or control it.
Category: AI
Over the years, I’ve listened to my fair share of audiobooks. Even though I’ve worked from home for over a decade, I’ve driven a lot…
One framework for machine learning is called a “generative adversarial network” or GAN. The technique involves pitting two neural networks against each other, a generative…
A prediction is a hypothesis of probability, and if the pollsters got it wrong, then they’ll examine their models to see if they can formulate better hypotheses. But is there an alternative to calling people up and asking them whom they intend to vote for? Perhaps AI algorithms can draw new insights from alternative data sets. There’s always the risk, though, that flawed algorithms will just magnify the errors in data that already plague us.
OPLIN 4Cast #722: Look in the rear view: autonomous vehicles are getting closer
Posted in 4cast, AI, and Self-driving vehicles
My sane friends are not eager to let a computer drive their cars for them. I keep thinking how great it would be to knit…
Last week, the non-profit artificial intelligence research company OpenAI announced that they had built a neural network language model, GPT-2, that is so good at this game that OpenAI felt it would be irresponsible of them to make it available to others.
I have long held that I won’t be buying any kind of home AI assistant (e.g., Alexa and her ilk). I have some serious concerns…
Amazon.com is certainly known as a large internet-based company, but just how massive it’s become may have flown under most people’s radar. For instance, 7.5%…
OPLIN 4Cast #554: Self-driving cars are not all rainbows and unicorns
Posted in 4cast, AI, and Self-driving vehicles
I admit, I have been silently cheering the progress of autonomous (self-driving) cars for some time. I have a son, who’s almost 13. Who hasn’t…
It’s not your imagination; we just posted about artificial intelligence developments as recently as this past April. However, AI applications are moving ahead at an…