hackers.ai Applied AI Digest #8

As the oracles of Silicon Valley debate whether the latest tech boom is sliding toward bust, there is already talk about what will drive the industry's next growth spurt. As Google chairman Eric Schmidt stressed during today's keynote, Google believes machine learning is "what's next." MIT's Personal Robots Group has been piloting what they envision as "the preschool of the future" -- a marriage between digital devices and a friendly classroom robot that could help tutor preschoolers. Yeah, sure, some elements of the narrative about developing computers that can think like humans have been exaggerated. But–A.I. technology is already much more advanced than you probably think it is.