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machine learning

A.I. Might Not Be All Bad

Much as the steam engine ushered in the Industrial Revolution, A.I. and intelligent machines will bring unimaginable change to the latter part of the  21st Century. Visionaries suggest that A.I. is more Pandora's Box than Prometheus' stolen fire, with many jobs likely to be consigned to the history books and it's already clear that the transport industry is going to

The New World of Machine Photo Recognition

Back in 2012 Google announced that its computers learned to recognize pictures of cats. Technology doesn’t stand still. Today in 2016 Google’s computers can now recognize many other things besides disinterested feline faces. What comes from this machine recognition ability goes far beyond facial recognition. About a year ago, I uploaded my entire library of photos and many of my