We couldn’t be bothered to read past the first few words of this story. Curt Woodward writing for BetaBoston: “MIT researchers say they’ve built an artificial intelligence system that’s as good as humans … ”  More

Scientists announced a major breakthrough in machine learning that allows The Robots to learn as quickly as humans. It’s a change from most current systems that use neural networks. Will Knight in MIT Technology Review: But there is a crucial drawback to these systems: they require oodles of data to learn how to do even the simplest task. The revised system makes its decisions using little data. They’ll make excellent Democratic primary voters.  More