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Wolfram Alpha debuted in 2009. Just imagine what they could have been if they'd opened up "skill" creation to the public. Given that devices equivalent to Alexa or Google Home coul…

The work of a scholar I follow has covers this topic a little. Chris Blattman recently co-wrote an op-ed [0] about his data covering sweatshops in Ethiopia. They found that it wasn…

I enjoyed reading this, and was surprised to learn it was written two decades ago in (1998). I wonder what we've learned since?

This seems pretty streamlined and well-documented, although I wonder if they could have delayed the Facebook login. Convincing users to do your data cleaning for you is quite the t…

I was curious too and found this list (sorry about the parent site): https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2015/07/21/top-8-indus... 1. Fanuc 2. Yaskawa 3. ABB 4. Kawasaki The firs…

> It reinvents how people interact with artificial intelligence by allowing you to teach it instead of guessing what it'll understand. Putting out an app like this seems like a gre…

[As a layperson] the most convincing argument the Authors Guild makes is given I think in their SCOTUS petition: that Google's "fair use" is sidestepping a legitimate business oppo…

I have been going down the rabbit hole of copyright, fair use, and the Google Books Settlement recently. This article is a great summary including a lot of the peripheral issues, b…

Ok, here is one of the important opinions in the Google Books settlement, by Judge Chin in 2013 [0]. He basically says (paraphrasing), "I'm going to assume Google has violated copy…

"If Google could find a way to take that corpus, sliced and diced by genre, topic, time period, all the ways you can divide it, and make that available to machine-learning research…

Here is a more proper link, if anyone wants to avoid going straight to pdf: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01501735/

Interesting that they provided an official incarnation of the WaveNet model for the github code repo https://github.com/tensorflow/magenta/tree/master/magenta/mo...