Posts by Daniel Schorin

Student Developer Daniel Schorin reflects on his participation in the creation of an online Python course with Academic Innovation.

Design Lab Student Developer Daniel Schorin reflects on AI and its potential consequences for humanity.

When the microprocessor was invented in 1972, the US economic productivity was at a 40 year low. Computers became popular in businesses and homes in following years, and what came next radicalized the economy and business forever. Computers allowed businesses newfound abilities for number crunching, data saving, and word documentation.

While computers are revolutionary in their ability to compute repetitive calculations and follow complex programmed instructions, they have never been sufficient at pattern recognition. This makes image and speech recognition extraordinarily difficult for ordinary computers, which is why it took until 2018 to unlock your iPhone using your face and why telephone chatbots are so frustratingly stupid.

One would be hard pressed to avoid hearing about artificial intelligence (AI) in the news. It’s everywhere: from AlphaGo, the new world champion of the board game Go, to Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement on framing AI as the core technology of Facebook. With all of this buzz, what actually is artificial intelligence?