In Machines We Trust: AI finds its voice
MIT Technology Review Narrated
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Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence
Before neural networks, tech companies like Microsoft aimed to build systems that could understand the everyday way people write and talk. In 1996, Microsoft hired a linguist, Chris Brockett, to begin work on what they called natural language AI. And he spent years slowly trying to tell the computer the way that English is put together so that the computer can do that. The key change in this case is that a neural network can learn to recognize what a cat looks like as opposed to people having to define for the machine what a cat looked like.
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