"What we're seeing here is a model free from human bias and presuppositions. It can learn whatever it determines is optimal, which may indeed be more nuanced that our own conceptions of the same."

If it kills off all the Republicans and Tories, I'll say "Job well done."

They tried to assimilate me. They failed.

The MD Anderson nightmare doesn't stand on its own. I regularly hear from startup founders in the AI space that their own financial services and biotech clients have had similar experiences working with IBM.

The narrative isn't the product of any single malfunction, but rather the result of overhyped marketing, deficiencies in operating with deep learning and GPUs and intensive data preparation demands.

AlphaGo is a Go playing Expert System.  It can never be more than that because Neural Net technology does not allow it to be anything more.  Both Hinton ("We need to start over") and LeCun (They don't work in the real world") let the cat out of the bag on that one.  

* a psychological disorder whose symptoms include selective amnesia, shallow volatile emotions, and over dramatic or attention-seeking behavior.  

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre