Thinking fast and slow with AI

Acclaimed economist Daniel Kahneman in his book Thinking Fast and Slow, proposed that the human brain has two separate systems for decision making – system 1 and [… Read more ]

Computer Scientists Prove Why Bigger Neural Networks Do Better

Our species owes a lot to opposable thumbs. But if evolution had given us extra thumbs, things probably wouldn’t have improved much. One thumb per [… Read more ]

10 Best Machine Learning Algorithms

Though we’re living through a time of extraordinary innovation in GPU-accelerated machine learning, the latest research papers frequently (and prominently) feature algorithms that are decades, in [… Read more ]

American Companies That Failed in China

For decades, China has been a top priority for American companies looking to expand. This is because the country’s middle class is simply enormous, growing [… Read more ]

The ‘ultimate simulator’ for autonomous vehicles

Raquel Urtasun, the former chief scientist at Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group, promised an “AI-centric approach” to autonomous vehicles when she founded her own company last year, [… Read more ]

Utilisation de Google Analytics et transferts de données

Google Analytics est une fonctionnalité qui peut être intégrée par les gestionnaires de sites web tels que des sites de vente en ligne afin d’en [… Read more ]

Betting on Fast Results From New A.I. Technologies?

Picking up new technology in an increasingly digital world is harder than it looks. More companies may be turning to artificial intelligence, but many have yet to master the transition [… Read more ]

MAN WITH SEVERED SPINAL CORD WALKS AGAIN

Rocatti had lost all feeling and motion in his legs after the motorbike crash. But thanks to electrodes implanted in their spines in experimental surgery in [… Read more ]

Where AI will go wrong in 2022

Remember Skynet, the artificial intelligence that wanted to wipe out humanity in the Terminator movies? Now that is an example of AI gone wrong. Luckily, [… Read more ]

This Senate bill would force companies to audit AI used for housing and loans

Legislation introduced last week would require companies to assess the impact of AI and automated systems they use to make decisions affecting people’s employment, finances, [… Read more ]

What We Know About the Accused Bitfinex Money Launderers

They are successful and glamorous, in a Bushwick, Brooklyn, sort of way. And on Tuesday, U.S. officials arrested them on allegations they sought to launder billions of dollars [… Read more ]

Learning to code will not save your kids

For the past few decades, anxious parents, educators, and politicians have latched onto the idea that teaching kids to code would be a surefire way to prepare [… Read more ]

The Inflation Rate in the U.S.: Past, Present, and Future

View the high resolution version of this infographic. Buy the poster. The inflation rate in the U.S. has surged, reaching 7% year-over-year in December 2021. This marks the highest level [… Read more ]

How to answer the ‘virtual currency’ question on your tax return

There’s a key question about cryptocurrency on the front page of your tax return this season. You need to answer yes if you sold, exchanged, [… Read more ]

The metaverse is a new word for an old idea

I have spent a lot of my career, both in Silicon Valley and beyond, insisting that all our technologies have histories and even pre-histories, and [… Read more ]