Coursera Week 5 :: Er, I don’t fully understand this…

I finished week 5 of Machine Learning last week – it was part two of the introduction to neural networks. Although it starts with a visual representation of how the neurons in the brain work, course leader Professor Andrew Ng didn’t suggest this is really how the brain actually works. I’m no a neuroscientist, but

Netflix fail :: Bad AI or just shameless marketing?

The other day my brother-in-law sent me a link for a documentary on NetFlix about Alpha Go. I told him I didn’t have a Netflix subscription, so couldn’t watch it. The next day my wife tells me she wants to show “The Sound of Music” to our kids and watch “The Crown” herself. So, we

Recognising Words – What are the problems?

In my previous blog, I gave a bit of a sketch of how to handle the problem of having a computer look at two pieces of translated text and figure out which words/phrases are the translation of other words/phrases – without teaching the computer anything about the two languages (i.e. no dictionaries) While the idea