DailyDirt: Don't Let Your Computers Grow Up To Be Cowboys

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Machine learning is a fascinating field that is increasingly becoming a part of more and more aspects of our lives. Not too far in the future, we're supposed to have all kinds of robot helpers -- driving cars for us and doing all the boring jobs. We're not quite there yet, but it may only be a matter of time before it's common for a robot to ask, "Do you want fries with that?" Here are just a few interesting examples of machines learning how to be more like us. If you'd like to read more awesome and interesting stuff, check out this unrelated (but not entirely random!) Techdirt post via StumbleUpon.
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  1. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 30 Jul 2013 @ 5:29pm

    cowboy computers....?

    will they hog-tie humans?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  2. icon
    McCrea (profile), 30 Jul 2013 @ 6:30pm

    Programming computers to use our spoken language

    Programming computers to use our spoken language is difficult because people often use the same word to convey very different meanings

    Apparently difficult for people on the Internet, two.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  3. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 30 Jul 2013 @ 7:14pm

    link to this | view in thread ]

  4. icon
    David Good (profile), 30 Jul 2013 @ 7:16pm

    Do I want a computer to learn?

    I'm not sure I want a computer/robot that learns what kind of porn I like to watch...

    link to this | view in thread ]

  5. identicon
    Coyne Tibbets, 30 Jul 2013 @ 7:34pm

    "Why" Questions, So What?

    Everyone has problems with, "Why?" questions: Parents, the government, businesses, scientists, and etc. What's so unusual about that?

    link to this | view in thread ]

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    Anonymous Coward, 31 Jul 2013 @ 5:06am

    Teach them to be Doctors n Lawyers n such ?

    link to this | view in thread ]


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