Category: Technical

We often hear or read that artificial intelligence will change the world as we know it. This misses the mark; AI has changed the world that we live in forever. It isn’t some futuristic technology that will alter our lives someday. It’s a feature in products that we interact with…

One of the most useful skills I picked up during my Ph.D. studies was how to turn light refreshments into a whole meal.  The trick is to combine hunger and the ability to ignore shame for personal gain. Then one needs only spend an awful lot of time at the…

We’ve discussed several applications of machine learning before. We teach a machine a concept from stored data so that it can: The common thrust is that, using supervised learning, we’re teaching a machine some concept from recorded data so that we can identify the same concept in data we haven’t…

I have a relative that frequently has medical problems. This despite the fact that he’s a healthy young man. His problem is that he has too many names. He’s James-Robert, but depending on whom you ask, you’ll hear him called: He has five names at least, and that’s before considering…

Heuristic search is a subfield of artificial intelligence.  It is the study of algorithms meant for general problem solving. The problems solved with heuristic search come from a variety of domains, including: These varried domains have two things in common.  First, the difficulty of solving these problems grows far faster…

Introduction This post originally appeared on SEP’s Blog People often ask questions like "What is AI?", or "Is AI worth of the hype?". Both questions are non-trivial to answer, but let’s start with the first one: "What is AI?". This is a perennial favorite at academic conferences on AI for…

I recently took a look at how we can prove a given instance of a randomizer romhack can be won using propositional logic. It’s posted over on the company’s blog, so make sure to take a look at it over there. It’s kind of part of the same thread as…