A Wrinkle in Time
“The A.I. system had demonstrated overnight improvements roughly equal to the total gains the old one had accrued over its entire lifetime.” The NYT Mag’s Gideon Lewis with a very interesting look at the future of Google (and to a certain extent, everything else). The Great A.I. Awakening. (I’m old enough to remember when artificial intelligence just meant pretending you were smart.)
+ Researchers are pushing the limits of machine learning by programming a robot to fold laundry. The irony is that by the time robots can fold clothes, none of us will need to leave the house anyway. So who cares about a few wrinkles?