“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?