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We’ve all heard it: AI is coming for junior-level jobs. If you are in your 20s and you use a computer for work, you have already been affected . Plenty of handwringing ensued . But fear not, it is an illusion.…

No, Facebook Did Not Panic and Shut Down an AI Program That Was Getting Dangerously Smart - Gizmodo

If you look up a word in the dictionary, you’ll find it is described using other words. The mathematically-inclined among us (and machines are very much mathematically inclined) might notice the relationship between this property of language and the ability to describe vectors in terms of other vectors. Such linear algebra doesn’t even rise to the level of artificial intelligence, and instead follows a long tradition of developing mathematical analogues for physical phenomenon like the orbits of the planets or the transverse lengths of rectangular corn fields. Algebraic projections of language, or “embeddings,” are merely the first step in building a translation or natural language system.…

Tay, the neo-Nazi millennial chatbot, gets autopsied - Ars Technica

Children understand early on that words are spoken in a context and both word and context interact to create meaning. If a child points to a fruit bowl and says ‘apple’ the child is praised and maybe rewarded with a snack. If the child points to a man walking his dog and says apple, the child sees its grown ups chuckle bashfully. Each invocation is the child sampling a space of contexts and testing an intervention in each; the more dissimilar the contexts, the more information is contained in the grownups’ responses. The resulting repetition is unremarkable when the word in question is innocuous. All this changes, of course, when the word is a ‘swear,’ and every query into the context space is consistently jarring to grownups. Children may exploit the jarring nature of a swear in all contexts, or simply be discouraged from testing any further.…

Match 1 - Google DeepMind Challenge Match: Lee Sedol vs AlphaGo - YouTube

Today a computer defeated the world champion in one of the most complex games created. Commentators will no doubt weigh in on the technique and meaning of the victory, and there remain several games left in the tournament, but before they do it is worth considering why this challenge is different from all others.…