It was 11 years ago today that Google killed Google Reader. The RSS reader with popular with a niche crowd, but never really expanded beyond it’s core use case. In the end it was ditched for more algorithmically driven ways to get the news such as Google News and various […]
This is the type of headline I would have expected to have to write for stoned teenagers. But according to CNN, earlier this year 42% of surveyed CEOs say that could happen. CEOs of what, you might ask? Who knows. There were certainly some tech CEOs in there, but there […]
If you spend much time reading about Artificial Intelligence and philosophy of the mind, you will hear about John Searle’s Chinese Room thought experiment. Written in 1980, it is an argument that however well a computer is able to imitate a mind, it cannot actually think. The argument goes something […]
I was listening the latest Java Posse roundup recording on the “Future of Software” in which the topic of AI came up, and couldn’t help but chime in on a few things. The basic question being posed was, will computers eventually become smart enough to write their own software. Some argued no, […]