As the first generation of such work that was mainly crowdsourced gave way to more advanced requirements, companies such as Infolks, iMerit and Playment have come up catering to global clients and making India an emerging hub for data labelling and annota... (more…)

[Epistemic status: Strong opinions lightly held, this time with a cool graph.]... (more…)

IBM discusses AI, neural nets and quantum computing. (more…)

Stanford University’s AI index offers us fanciful measures of the triumph of AI, rivaling the far-fetched metrics of dot-com commerce. The reality has been the opposite. For decades, U.S. productivity grew by about 3% a year. Then, after 1970, it slowed t... (more…)

An AI, in this case, an auto-helm took the wheel for most of a recent 750 mile (about 1,200km) sail from Hobart to Sydney in Australia. With the sail taking almost 2 weeks, I had some (a lot of) time… (more…)