AI gets smarter, more capable, and more world-transforming every day. Here’s why that might not be a good thing.| Vox
The population of college-age Americans is about to crash. It will change higher education forever.| Vox
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Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us.| Vox
The idea that computers are people has a long and storied history. It goes back to the very origins of computers, and even from before. There's always been a question about whether a program is something alive or not since it intrinsically has some kind of autonomy at the very least, or it wouldn't be a program. There has been a domineering subculture—that's been the most wealthy, prolific, and influential subculture in the technical world—that for a long time has not only promoted the id...| www.edge.org
One of the main drawbacks of any NLU neural model is it’s lack of generalization. This topic has been explored extensively in the previous post Empirical Evaluation of Current Natural Language Understanding (NLU). To what can we attribute this lack of common-sense to?| Sujay S Kumar
Chatbot company Replika says it receives a handful of messages almost every day from users who believe their online friend is sentient.| New York Post
Collected data and analysis from a large survey of machine learning researchers.| AI Impacts