Monday, July 25, 2016

"John hit Mary" and other AI problems

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With articles being written about AI constantly now, I feel it is time to think about the basics. How do you get a computer to understa...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

5 questions about human intelligence that make clear AI is far from here yet

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I have some questions for you: How many windows were in the house or apartment in which you lived when you were ten? Can you name all ...
Monday, July 11, 2016

Six things computers (and people) must do in order to be considered intelligent

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We hear a lot about AI these days, most of it pretty silly. It seems all to be about answering questions by key word matching and finding...
Monday, June 27, 2016

attempting to understand Bob Dylan (just like all those big firm's Natural Language Processing programs claim they can do)

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Suddenly, natural language processing (NLP) is back in the news. (Oddly this is a term I made up around 1970 because I didn’t like the...
Monday, June 20, 2016

I don't care about Odysseus Mr Kelly and neither did Jimmy Cagney

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I like old movies. The other day I was watching a Jimmy Cagney movie, when my mind went to one my fixations, education. What is the connect...
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Monday, June 6, 2016

A little IBM Watson irony

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Last year, IBM asked me if they could produce an “art visual” with a quote of mine on it. In light of IBM’s complete disregard of the impli...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Is IBM trying to kill off AI research by misusing the word "cognitive?"

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Welcome to the Cognitive Era , says IBM’s advertising. I have been trying to figure out what that could mean. If you look inside IBM’s site...