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Recommended Reads on the Computing Beat This Week
A roundup of the best stories on computing from other sites, collected by Tom Simonite, MIT Technology Review’s San Francisco bureau chief.
Don’t Blame Watson for IBM’s Slide
IBM might be overhyping the AI engine that beat humans on Jeopardy! But it would take a superhuman effort to overcome the huge challenges facing the company.
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A Scientist’s Contested History of CRISPR
Eric Lander of the Broad Institute writes a history of a gene-editing technique that may be seen as partial to one side of a patent dispute.
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Recommended Reads on the Robot and AI Beat This Week
A roundup of interesting stories on robotics and artificial intelligence from other sites, collected by Will Knight, MIT Technology Review’s senior editor for AI.
How an AI Algorithm Learned to Write Political Speeches
Political speeches are often written for politicians by trusted aides and confidantes. Could an AI algorithm do as well?
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Other Interesting arXiv Papers (Week ending January 16, 2016)
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv this week.
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