You can turn right on red in Iowa. Except not where I was last night, from Washington Street on to Linn, which I only realized as I read the “no right on red” sign mid-turn. You’re definitely not supposed to turn left on red, which is what I did a few blocks earlier going from Iowa St. to Clinton. I have no excuse except—I’m not kidding—my mind was preoccupied by thoughts about self-driving cars.
Read MoreEarlier this week, I talked about the major themes in how the press has been covering artificial intelligence since 2015. This post puts the recent months in context, looking at whether we are in an AI spring time (tl;dr: we are) and when the AI winter(s) were. A big theme is going to be hype-and-disappointment, so we’ll close on “are we in hyperhype right now?”
Read MoreIf you could read everything on Google News that mentioned artificial intelligence, what would you find? (tl;dr: a lot of stuff on Google and humans)
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