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A few words on Twitter’s 280 experiment
Twitter have decided to run an experiment. They are giving random users twice the character limit — 280 rather than 140 characters. Their motivation was their observation that in Japanese, Korean and Chinese 140 characters conveys alot more information and so people tend to tweet more often. Here is their full statement.
A few words on Twitter’s 280 experiment
Twitter have decided to run an experiment. They are giving random users twice the character limit — 280 rather than 140 characters. Their motivation was their observation that in Japanese, Korean and Chinese 140 characters conveys alot more information and so people tend to tweet more often. Here is their full statement.
Kahneman on AI versus Humans
At our AI conference last week, Nobel Laureate, Danny Kahneman, was commenting on a paper by Colin Camerer but ended up spending much of his time talking about his view as to whether AI (or robots) would replace humans. He had definite opinions on the subject.
Here is a video of his remarks:
Kahneman on AI versus Humans
At our AI conference last week, Nobel Laureate, Danny Kahneman, was commenting on a paper by Colin Camerer but ended up spending much of his time talking about his view as to whether AI (or robots) would replace humans. He had definite opinions on the subject.
Here is a video of his remarks:
Videos from the Economics of AI Conference
Last week, we held the first fully fledged conference on the Economics of Artificial Intelligence here in Toronto. If you take a look here you can see the agenda and papers. It was a good crowd.
We also have videos of all the talks and discussions from the conference including from some of the pioneers of machine learning.
Videos from the Economics of AI Conference
Last week, we held the first fully fledged conference on the Economics of Artificial Intelligence here in Toronto. If you take a look here you can see the agenda and papers. It was a good crowd.
We also have videos of all the talks and discussions from the conference including from some of the pioneers of machine learning.
EJMR needs to end
Over a week ago, Justin Wolfers wrote in the New York Times about new research by Alice Wu (a Berkeley undergraduate student with skills in machine learning).