The current state of AI is both amazing and depressing. Let's get the bad news out of the way, first, shall we?

Apple makes it easy to build text and image classifier regressors. Cogsworth never sounded so smart!

Insane beings can be useful, to be sure. Have you heard the joke about my brother who thinks he's a chicken?

Good ol' BoingBoing has something new for me six days out of seven. This time, they're taking on my own field!

What is the ultimate achievement in artificial intelligence?

Same as the old algorithms? A new article shows the limitations of the current research into Artificial Intelligence.

This article appeared on Slashdot at the same time I recorded the last podcast episode!

Here's perhaps the best summary of the current state of artificial intelligence: https://slashdot.org/story/18/02/06/1731241/ai-tailors-can-wait

I just read the following statement at https://medium.com/@rowantrollope/ai-and-our-kids-raising-centaurs-c91cc...

"We must continue to teach kids to appreciate beauty, and show them the value of empathy. These are things machines will only ever be able to simulate, never experience."

The first part of the statement is uncontroversial. In fact, it sounds like the basis for my own attempt at parenting.

I just posted to Medium a model for understanding emotions so simple, a machine could understand it.

Them. I mean them, as in, emotions. As in, machines can understand emotions!