Stephen Bush in the New Statesman makes an argument I’ve heard from a few people. The young’uns are furious and therefore Corbyn, but they’re also “Thatcher’s children”. So the Tories can solve all their problems by offering something about “getting on the housing ladder”. It looks like they’re going to implement this. I am not…
Read More Weak sauceFollowing up on the previous post, here’s something fascinating. The developers of an AI project that is meant to provide a vast base of conceptual associations to help computers process text in English are trying to purge it of racism. As I understand it, ConceptNet is meant to help your application parse incoming natural language…
Read More Linguistic prescriptivism sucksThis Technology Review piece about the inventor of backpropagation in neural networks crystallises some important issues about the current AI boom. Advances (or supposed advances) in AI are often held to put our view of ourselves in question. Its failures are held, by anyone who pays attention to them, to put our view of intelligence…
Read More It was called a perceptron for a reason, damn it