For most of us, NPCs and electronic toy characters cannot sustain an illusion of life past our initial interaction with them. They suffer from predictability, simplicity, and inauthentic verbal and… (more…)

Thread by @cyberomin: "It's always fun when I speak to founders and potential founders and they are quick to tell me how they want to use AI/ customer retention and improve LTV. Truth is, they don't even need ML. A properly written SQL is what you ne […]"... (more…)

Artificial intelligence trained to detect orca sounds in noisy waters is helping protect whales from vessel traffic. (more…)

Artificial Intelligence is in the business of building intelligence... obviously.  The thinking goes that, using architectures of statistical models and algorithms one can construct sentience. Growing up I used this as a framework to guide and optim... (more…)

Simple statistics or hidden people sometimes lie behind the futuristic sheen of AI. (more…)