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This article was co-written with Pedro Oliveira. In the past few days we've been following this excellent and profoundly enlightening discussion on MoMA's Design and Violence page. The conversation, initiated by John Thackara's comments on Burton Nitta's project "Republic of Salivation", was further developed in the comment section.

Questioning the "critical" in...

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The frightening, futurist portrayals of Artificial Intelligence that dominate films and novels, and shape the popular imagination, are fictional. In reality, AI is already changing our daily lives, almost entirely in ways that improve human health, safety, and productivity. Unlike in the movies, there is no race of superhuman robots on the horizon or probably even possible.

Overview | One Hundred Year Study on...

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"All models are wrong, but some are useful." So proclaimed statistician George Box 30 years ago, and he was right. But what choice did we have? Only models, from cosmological equations to theories of human behavior, seemed to be able to consistently, if imperfectly, explain the world around us. Until now.

The End of Theory: The Data Deluge...

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The question I'm asked most often requires some unpacking, so this first post will cover just this one topic: "What are the differences between artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, and deep learning?" These are all real terms with distinct meanings but are often used interchangeably.

AI Literacy: The basics of machine...

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Meet the engineers who code Facebook

Artificial Intelligence, Revealed

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Four days later, a couple of hundred journalists, entrepreneurs and advertisers from all over the world gathered in Google's London engineering office for a special announcement. Guests were greeted with Translate-branded fortune cookies. Their paper slips had a foreign phrase on one side - mine was in Norwegian - and on the other, an invitation to download the Translate app.

The Great A.I. Awakening

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