Tag: artificial intelligence
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Turning Into Snake Oil
There seems to be a cycle that’s taking shape around many modern technological milestones. First, a community (be it a company or a collection of disparate open source teams) create a genuine advancement in science, and then the marketing overhypes it as some kind of magic bullet that will bring salvation to us all. But…
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Carla and the Uncanny Valley
The idea of marrying my two primary preoccupations – statistics and literature – has been in the back burner of my mind for as long as the split began. I went through high school thinking I was going to take a course in comparative literature in university, but come the time to actually decide my…