Modern AI and the fundamental undoing of the scientific method The days of traditional, human-driven problem solving — developing a hypothesis, uncovering principles, and testing that hypothesis through deduction, logic, and experimentation — may be coming to an end. A confluence of factors (large data sets, step-change infrastructure, algorithms, and computational resources) are moving us toward an entirely new […]
Alien Knowledge – When Machines Justify Knowledge
The infusion of AI (alien intelligence) is bringing into question the assumptions embedded in our long Western tradition. We thought knowledge was about finding the order hidden in the chaos. We thought it was about simplifying the world. It looks like we were wrong. Knowing the world may require giving up on understanding it. The […]
THE AI INDEX 2017 ANNUAL REPORT
A long report on the state of AI. For all those interested in this multidimensional rapidly evolving phenomena – holding the sum of all fears and hopes. Created and launched as a project of the One Hundred Year Study on AI at Stanford University (AI100), the AI Index is an open, not-for-profit project to track […]
Mark Sagar Made a Baby in His Lab. Now It Plays the Piano
“When scientists see the world and artists see the world, they are looking at the same thing,” he says, “using a different language and viewpoint to describe it. But it’s all true. Everything is interconnected.” This is a must read for anyone interested in the emerging developments of the leading edge of human-AI interfaces – […]
Mossberg: The Disappearing Computer
Tech was once always in your way. Soon, it will be almost invisible. A key question – What’s going to be always in our way next? All of the major tech players, companies from other industries and startups whose names we don’t know yet are working away on some or all of the new […]
