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!

Check out this new conference in Emotion AI!

http://go.affectiva.com/emotion-ai-summit

Affectiva, the sponsor, has an SDK in use right here on this site that you can check out from the link in the menu.

Alan Turing was born on this date, June 23. As heartbreaking as his personal story can be, his work is fundamental to understanding the intersection of math and intelligence.

As intelligence takes on so many connotations when studied, so does Alan's work and his life.

I hope that emotional intelligence will be a hallmark to computer development. It would be a fitting extension to what has happened and how to make effective change.

A new AI built by Facebook (who would've known) has learned to lie. Who would've—wait.

The similarities are—I hope—superficial, but Hal 9000 and Apple's new HomePod, well, do look a little similar.