“Excerpts transcribed from John Giannandrea’s appearance at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017, six months before Apple poached him from Google,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt writes for Apple 3.0.
• Computers are incredibly powerful, but they’re also pretty dumb.
• The basic idea is that the technology should augment the human intellect, not replace it.
• There’s just a huge amount of unwarranted hype around AI right now.
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We think John fits a lot better at Apple than with Google!
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Microsoft’s Windows is doomed – September 1, 2017
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]