I review the fantastic book written by former assistant professor at CMU, Principal Speech Scientist at Apple, founding director of Microsoft Research Asia, and former President of Google China
Artificial Intelligence is Slowing Down – Part 2
I present an academic paper here to continue my discussion and analysis that AI is slowing down despite the hype surrounding it.
Image Enhancing – Part 2
In today’s post, I wish to talk about new technology that has recently emerged from Google that’s related to the image enhancing topic discussed in a previous post of mine.
AI is Still Fundamentally Unintelligent
I discuss how AI is still fundamentally unintelligent and, hence, the hype behind it is to some significant degree unjustified. I will use the GPT-3 to argue my case.
Artificial Intelligence is Slowing Down
In this post I discuss why AI cannot keep accelerating indefinitely at its current pace. There’s only so much that we can pump into it.
The Incredible Power of GPT-3 by OpenAI
I present here the incredible power of GPT-3 by OpenAI. I also look at Dall-E which can generate images rather than just text.
Loss of Class Dynamics Amid Distance Learning
In this article I talk about how remote learning is becoming a thing and how class dynamics is going to suffer as a result.
Apple’s and Samsung’s Face Unlocking Technologies
Have you ever wondered how the technology that unlocks your phone with your face works? This is a fascinating question and, interestingly, Samsung and Apple provide very different technologies for this feature on their devices. This post will examine the differences between the two technologies and will also show you how either of the two […]
Review of The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
I detest receiving books as gifts in the workplace. Such books are usually of the soulless sort, the sort that are written around some lifeless corporate motto that is supposed to inspire a new employee to work overtime when needed. So, when I walked into my first day at work at Carnegie Mellon University (Australia […]
How Facial Recognition Works – Part 2 (FaceNet)
Here I describe a specific facial recognition algorithm – one that changed things forever: FaceNet by Google.