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Data is the New…Nausea

July 25th, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Data, data, data. Enough already. Just tell me something I don’t know. Data is the new oil. Data is the new bacon. Data will fuel the economies of the future. Data will determine the winner of the next world war. Data, data, data. I work with data. On some days, some folks […]

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Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Data Science · Information · Knowledge · Learning · Machine Learning · Teaching

The Lawyers and the Demise of Artificial Intelligence

June 13th, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips We move forward to the 1980s when the lawyers prevented artificial intelligence (AI) from helping us do our jobs. Note: This post is about legal maneuvers that prevent helpful AI systems. It is not about AI systems that were built poorly and mimic some human tendencies to discriminate against persons illegally. Those […]

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Tags: Accountability · Artificial Intelligence · Decide · History · Technology

Free for More Meaningful Work

May 2nd, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Automation and artificial intelligence promise to take away the bane of some work and make us free for more meaningful work. Do we want that? Automation frees us from that old work that is just the same old same old. We will have time on our hands and be free for more […]

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Tags: Artificial Intelligence · People · Respect · Technology · Tools · Vocabulary · Work

The Machine Isn’t Learning

April 21st, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips “Machine Learning” is one of the biggest misuses of the English language I have seen. The machine isn’t learning. Let’s try to remember what is happening. Data science is a big deal these days. Well, it is until you read the fine print in the Help Wanted ads about data science jobs. […]

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Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Computing · Language · Learning · Machine Learning