The Artificial Intelligencer

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  Peter Springett

  

  What is Web 3.0? Here's what the internet will look like in the future

  Laptop Magazine - Kimberly Gedeon

  “What is web 3.0?” is often asked with a tone of skepticism, apprehension and leeriness — similar to when David Letterman teased Bill Gates in a ‘95 …

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  Peter Springett

  

  The AI Illusion – State-of-the-Art Chatbots Aren’t What They Seem

  mindmatters.ai - Gary Smith

  Artificial intelligence is an oxymoron. Despite all the incredible things computers can do, they are still not intelligent in any meaningful sense of …

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  Peter Springett

  

  Why Algorithms Are Called Algorithms, and How It All Goes Back to the Medieval Persian Mathematician Muhammad al-Khwarizmi

  openculture.com - by Colin Marshall

  In recent decades, a medieval Persian word has come to prominence in English and other major world languages. Many of use it on a daily basis, often …

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  Peter Springett

  

  Turning point for artificial intelligence, which may or may not be dominated by the large cloud providers

  ZDNET - Joe McKendrick

  Artificial intelligence and machine learning requires huge amounts of processing capacity and data storage, making the cloud the preferred option. …

• A.I. is following a familiar progression. “First, it’s used by a small core of scientists,” Jonathan Reilly, Akkio’s other co-founder, said. “Then the user base expands to engineers who can navigate technical nuance and jargon until, finally, it’s made user-friendly enough that almost anyone can use it.” Just as clickable icons have replaced obscure programming commands on home computers, new no-code platforms replace programming languages with simple and familiar web interfaces. And a wave of start-ups is bringing the power of A.I. to nontechnical people in visual, textual and audio domains.

  

  Peter Springett

  

  ‘No Code’ Brings the Power of A.I. to the Masses

  The New York Times - Craig S. Smith

  This article is part of a new series on how artificial intelligence has the potential to solve everyday problems. Sean Cusack, a software engineer at Microsoft and beekeeper on the side, wanted to know if anything besides bees was going into his hives. So he built a tiny photo booth (a sort of bee …

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  Peter Springett

  

  Here’s how algorithms are made

  TNW - Ben Dickson

  As software and algorithms become an increasingly pervasive part of our lives, there’s growing interest and concern on how they are affecting society, the economy, and politics. Yet, most social studies of algorithms perceive them as obscure black boxes that function autonomously. This isolated look …