#Machine learning

iStockphoto / Bence Bezeredy What could possibly go wrong with machine learning detecting that someone’s sad (possibly depressed) and suggesting they listen to sadder and sadder music? There’s no way that would lead to an endless feedback loop with someone staying perpetually miserable after a

Author: TNW Deals / Source: The Next Web Machine learning conjures images of the HAL 9000 or Terminators running amok. But, the reality is that artificial intelligence is just about crafting programs so ingeniously that they can actually assess their own performance and do better on their own.

Author: TEAM COMMERCE / Source: Mashable These days, pundits galore are proselytizing about the Future of Work. Depending on who you ask, the robots may or may not be taking over, leaving us mere humans pondering how work fits into our lives and whether we’re going to be eventually rendered

Author: Kyle Wiggers / Source: VentureBeat Ever wonder which programming languages are the most-used in machine learning? How about which artificial intelligence (AI) and data science packages are tapped by developers more frequently than all others? GitHub resolved a few of those mysteries

I’m all for a good conspiracy theory that’s based on evidence, especially one that drops at the end of a long week full of miserable news. I’m especially here for this one because it’s exposing how quick we are as a society to trust trends despite constant evidence that 99.99% of things going viral