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Tag: machine learning

  • First, we had suspects

    First, you had a suspect; then you collected data Fifty years ago, if you worked for law enforcement, you started with a crime. You used information from that crime to make a list of possible suspects. And then you looked into their life. Maybe you did this with publicly accessible information, by digging through their […]

  • Inbox is the Trojan Horse for your personal AI

    Google’s Mail products are a Trojan Horse with which the company is turning “use the Internet” into “talk with an AI.”

  • Unlocking our future past

    In a few years, algorithms will be able to describe video content as well as humans can. Unlocking the pent up information in petabytes of video will have wide-ranging impacts on society.

  • Design for interruption

    Stop designing for mobile. Instead, design for interruption. The future of computing is prosthetic brains, and those who figure out how and when to interrupt us will win.