Entries tagged with “ai” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

Article on a neat product for sale that automates grading of essays in school. Nifty. Took him 6 years. Yikes. Technorati Profile

I've been trying to figure out what I want to do my PhD in. As an engineer and inventor, I kept looking around for projects that would be interesting AND useful, to do the research on - I'd like to produce a thing people can use at the end of my Doctorate, not just some inscrutable collection of data added to the obscure corpus of scientific knowledge. I've been thinking about Artificial Intelligence.

On the question of whether artificial life is possible, the New York Times takes the position that macro-structure, not micro-structure, is what matters.