How to keep A. I. from running amok is a key concern as the technology gets more powerful. Read More
Tag: natural language processing
What a Bristol-Myers project to monitor off-label prescribing says about future uses of A. I.
The pharmaceutical company teamed up with startup Cortical. io to find evidence of off-label prescribing. Read More
At Google Cloud, A. I. ethics requires ‘Iced Tea’ and ‘Lemonaid’
“Foundational” algorithms are the key to many A. I. use cases, but watch out for ethical pitfalls, warns top Google Cloud executive. Read More
Why A. I. needs the liberal arts
With a new institute, Colby College signals its intent to play a role in shaping the technology’s development. Read More
What’s big in A. I. this year
Two London venture investors offer their annual overview of A. I. ‘s evolving landscape. Read More
Come talk with us about machine-learning experiments gone right—and wrong
Enlarge We’ve spent the past few weeks burning copious amounts of AWS compute time trying to invent an algorithm to parse Ars’ front-page story headlines to predict which ones will win an A/B test—and we learned a lot. One of the lessons is that we—and by “we, ” I mainly mean “me, ” since this […]
Ars AI headline experiment finale—we came, we saw, we used a lot of compute time
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) We may have bitten off more than we could chew, folks. An Amazon engineer told me that when he heard what I was trying to do with Ars headlines, the first thing he thought was that we had chosen a deceptively hard problem. He warned that I needed […]
Our AI headline experiment continues: Did we break the machine?
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) We’re in phase three of our machine-learning project now—that is, we’ve gotten past denial and anger, and we’re now sliding into bargaining and depression. I’ve been tasked with using Ars Technica’s trove of data from five years of headline tests, which pair two ideas against each other in […]
Feeding the machine: We give an AI some headlines and see what it does
Enlarge / Turning the lens on ourselves, as it were. There’s a moment in any foray into new technological territory that you realize you may have embarked on a Sisyphean task. Staring at the multitude of options available to take on the project, you research your options, read the documentation, and start to work—only to […]
No-code A.I. is coming. Is your company ready?
A lot of A.I. software companies are increasingly putting the power to build specific A.I. algorithms in their customers’ hands. It’s a powerful development—but also possibly dangerous. Read More