Tag: computers
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Self-programming software. Self-blinded humans.
DeepMind Technologies, a London-based artificial-intelligence firm acquired by Google this year, has revealed that it is designing computers that combine the way ordinary computers work with the way the human brain works. They call this hybrid device a Neural Turing Machine. The hope is it won't need programmers, and will instead program itself. (1) We…
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Understand art. Without understand it...
Computers have become budding art historians. A new program can figure out a particular painting’s style — whether it’s abstract, impressionist or Baroque, for example — and tease out possible influences on the artists. Program designers started with a close look at 1,710 paintings. For each work, the program logged the everyday items depicted, such…
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AI, algorithms, managers, dehumanization...
An algorithm schedules and manages the nightly engineering work on one of the world's best subway systems – and does it more efficiently than any human could. (1) We believe we are just matter. So why does it matter that a lifeless matter dictates what we do? We believe we are just flesh and bones. So…
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The true Turing Test. Thinking like a woman. Being a true scientist.
You may have heard that the Turing Test, that old test of machine intelligence proposed by pioneering mathematician Alan Turing in 1950, has been passed (or at least claimed to have been passed) by computer bots emulating human responses to questions. What you may not have heard, though, is how profoundly bizarre Alan Turing’s original…
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Law. Surveillance. Dehumanization.
Nine years ago, federal agents stuck a location tracker on a nightclub owner's car without a warrant. The agents thought their suspect might be dealing drugs, and four weeks of GPS data ultimately proved them right. He countered that the prolonged tracking had violated his privacy, and therefore his constitutional rights. The case fell apart…
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