What if part of your job became teaching a computer everything you know about doing someone’s job — perhaps your own? Before the machines become smart enough to replace humans, as some people fear, the machines need teachers. Now, some companies are taking the first steps, deploying artificial intelligence in the workplace and asking their employees to train the A.I. [...]

In a paper posted to the arXiv preprint server this week, a team of computer scientists from the Renmin University of China in Beijing describes their system for fooling a computer trained to understand language. In short, by adding one very specific word to a particular part of a long sentence, or slightly misspelling one word in a phrase, a [...]

How Does Machine Learning Work?Machine learning is often referred to as magical or a black box:Insert data > magic black box > mission accomplished.Let’s look at the training process itself to better understand how machine learning can create value with data.CollectMachine learning is dependent on data. The first step is to make sure you have the right data as dictated [...]