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The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions
Mistaken extrapolations, limited imagination, and other common mistakes that distract us from thinking more productively about the future.
October 6, 2017
The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI
No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem.
April 11, 2017
Forget Killer Robots—Bias Is the Real AI Danger
John Giannandrea, who leads AI at Google, is worried about intelligent systems learning human prejudices.
October 3, 2017
Google Stakes Its Future on a Piece of Software
Alphabet, number 5 on our list of the 50 Smartest Companies, thinks it can wrest the cloud computing market away from Amazon by helping companies make use of machine learning with a tool called TensorFlow.
June 27, 2017
China’s AI Awakening
中国 人工智能 的崛起
The West shouldn’t fear China’s artificial-intelligence revolution. It should copy it.
October 10, 2017