I consider this video outstanding on multiple levels: The fact that there exists a government-sponsored prize ceremony that highlights the best human contributions from the citizenry on prime time TV: the Israel Prize. In this prize ceremony scientists are treated like rockstars. The montage behind the singers. The …

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I have a two year old. Like most two year olds she is in a stage of development where she picks up words like crazy. It's interesting as a person involved with machine learning to observe how she learns things. You can point at a sponge, an object she's never obviously never seen before and say "this is a …

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence in non-biological form. That seems easy enough, but intelligence itself is what is hard to define. Intelligence includes the ability to plan, problem solve, and apply pattern recognition. This form of intelligence is shared by many lifeforms on this planet. Even the common …

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