“The word “#heuristic” was invoked all through the summer of 1956. Instead of trying to analyze the brain to develop #machine_intelligence, some participants focused on the operational steps needed to solve a given problem.”

https://spectrum.ieee.org/dartmouth-ai-workshop

The "scientific method" as commonly understood typically has little or nothing to say about the key step of hypothesis generation. That part of the process may soon be dominated by machine intelligence (AI) - - leaving critical test and validation--grounding in "reality" - - to...whom?

#science #machine_intelligence #ai

Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning | Dropbox Tech Blog
https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2017/04/creating-a-modern-ocr-pipeline-using-computer-vision-and-deep-learning/

#machine_intelligence #mobile #computer_vision #deep_learning #doc_scanner #machine_learning #ocr #optical_character recognition