The Great A.I. Awakening

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I thought anyone interested in science might enjoy this long read from the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awakening.html

Sure wish I had majored in something not humanities

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[RandV]

Pretty fascinating how this works. As a modest programmer myself I can understand the theory but have a hard time even fathoming how you even begin to build something like this. And from the sounds of it the google engineers didn't always know what they're doing either

I gotta say though, this looks like a big direction for the future and relieves a lot of the threats of an AI singularity doomsday scenario.