IEEE BUENAVENTURA RAS/IAS CHAPTER Are the Machines Learning? By Karl Geiger. Golem or just a better mental grasp? The popular press, writers, and several leading technologists have been making headlines with fears of AIs ruling the earth and humanity. But are the machines truly learning, or are we merely programming and training them to do more sophisticated data processing? This talk presents a brief overview of machine learning techniques, then sets these applications in real-world contexts. As with any new tool, we have more to fear from human mis-application and mis-apprehension of these tools than from the tools themselves. Karl Geiger is Chief Software Architect at Neural ID in Redwood, CA. See http://are-machines-learning.eventbrite.com/ |