GM produced a self-driving car prototype...in 1958. There's a short documentary about it. Required wires in the road rather than machine learning. Presumably their PR machine said, "They'll be commercially viable by 1959." … [Read more...]
Decision Machines
A recent article on the Harvard Business School's Digital Initiative blog argues that we need to move beyond prediction to create "decision machines". It is decisions, not predictions, that have consequences. I couldn't agree more. However, I'm not sure that the current focus on statistical machine learning is going to lead us there. … [Read more...]