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neural network language processing :: Article Creator Neural Networks: You've Got It So Easy Neural networks are all the rage right now with increasing numbers of hackers, students, researchers, and businesses getting involved. The last resurgence was in the 80s and 90s, when there was little or no World Wide Web and few neural network tools. The current resurgence started around 2006. From a hacker's perspective, what tools and other resources were available back then, what's available now, and what should we expect for the future? For myself, a GPU on the Raspberry Pi would be nice. The 80s and 90s Neural network 80s/90s books and mags For the young'uns reading this who wonder how us old geezers managed to do anything before the World Wide Web, hardcopy magazines played a big part in making us aware of new things. And so it was Scientific American magazine's September 1992 special issue on Mind and Brain that introduced m...

the field of artificial intelligence :: Article Creator Drink The Kool-Aid All You Want, But Don't Call AI An Existential Threat A friendlier HAL from "2001: A Space Odyssey." By Thomas Gaulkin / Cryteria (CC-BY) In a 2012 essay for Aeon, physicist David Deutsch wrote of artificial intelligence: "I cannot think of any other significant field of knowledge where the prevailing wisdom, not only in society at large but among experts, is so beset with entrenched, overlapping, fundamental errors. Yet it has also been one of the most self-confident fields in prophesying that it will soon achieve the ultimate breakthrough." The self-confident prophesying Deutsch wrote of has since continued, except it is now accompanied with the warning that a rogue artificial intelligence could end life on Earth as we know it, and the technology should be categorized as an existential threat. Artificial intelligence has come into the spotlight si...

new technologies to learn in 2021 :: Article Creator 26 Top Defense Tech VCs To Know Daniel Ateya, RTX Ventures Daniel Ateya, managing director at RTX Ventures. RTX Ventures Location: San Francisco Bay Area Notable investments: Ursa Major, Hermeus, EnCharge AI, Tomorrow.Io, Impulse Space Why he's on the list: After leading 3M's corporate venture arm for over a decade, Ateya took over as head of venture for RTX (formerly Raytheon Technologies) in 2022. So far, it has invested in 17 aerospace and defense startups, including rocket propulsion provider Ursa Major and hypersonic aircraft developer Hermeus. "Our main focus is on identifying teams with outstanding technical and engineering talent and experience that have developed a disruptive vision and strategy with an actionable plan to build a scalable business," Ateya told Business Insider. Steve ...