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World class AI experts share what their favorite algorithm is

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by on August 4, 2018 at 12:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


From keeping our inboxes free from SPAM to mining your favorite cryptocurrencies, algorithms are all around us. While we feel like we’re drowning in an ocean of big data, clever algorithms are actually helping us to make sense of it all. And although these algorithms are ruling the world, we seem to know very little about them. How do they work? By whom were they created? I decided to ask the top experts (professors and professionals) which algorithms they think made the biggest contribution to artificial intelligence and science in general. All answers will be at display at the official…

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How bad AI marketing led humans to take on robots’ jobs

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by on August 4, 2018 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication


This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. The Wall Street Journal recently ran a piece that detailed how companies that provide email-based services scan the inboxes of millions of Gmail users. By itself, this isn’t a secret. Their service agreements make it clear that they require access to your email so that their artificial intelligence algorithms can provide you with smart features such as price comparisons, automated calendar scheduling and more. What they don’t tell you is that in some cases, their employees read your emails too, because their…

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