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Big Data is the new Artificial Intelligence – BetaNews

Big Data is the new Artificial IntelligenceThe failure of Artificial Intelligence. Back in the 1980s there was a popular field called Artificial Intelligence, the major idea of which was to figure out how experts do what they do, reduce those tasks to a set of rules, then program computers with those rules, effectively replacing the experts. The goal […]

April 16, 2014 ByRobert X. Cringely artificial, chemistry, chrome, english, explorer, french, google-translate, moore, mri, office, technology, translate Comments Off read more

Big Data has big problems – Boing Boing

Writing in the Financial Times, Tim Harford (The Undercover Economist Strikes Back, Adapt, etc) offers a nuanced, but ultimately damning critique of Big Data and its promises. Harford’s point is that Big Data’s premise is that sampling bias can be overcome by simply sampling everything, but the actual data-sets that make up Big Data are anything but comprehensive, and are […]

April 3, 2014 ByCory Doctorow beautiful, boing, brother, business, documentary, facebook, king, spiegelhalter, statistical, translate Comments Off read more