Pedro Domingos

@pmddomingos

Professor of computer science at UW and author of 'The Master Algorithm'. Into , , , and anything that makes me curious.

Joined July 2015

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jun 25
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  2. Sep 22

    Three things the US can learn from China about implementing AI, by (ignore the subtitle - that's not what the essay is about):

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  3. Sep 17

    Should “data” be a singular noun? Yes, like “sand”.

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  4. Retweeted
    Sep 6

    Big news , Your book, The Master Algorithm, made it to BookAuthority's list of best Algorithms books of all time!

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  5. Aug 20

    The narrative has changed. It has switched from "Isn’t it terrible that AI is a failure?" to "Isn’t it terrible that AI is a success?" (Peter Norvig)

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  6. Aug 19
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  7. Aug 15

    Where will our machines take us? My Scientific American article on the future of AI:

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  8. Aug 10

    Different governments' attitudes to tech companies: China: Use them America: Ignore them Europe: Slap fines on them

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  9. Aug 4

    A tale of two AI summers: 1980s Now Expert systems Deep learning More rules! More data! LISP machines GPUs Cyc DeepMind Brittleness Brittleness

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  10. Aug 1

    Move over, GPUs - we can now do deep learning at the speed of light:

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  11. Jul 30

    Algorithms are much less biased than humans, but you'd never know from the current brouhaha about them:

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  12. Jul 4

    Instead of unreadable privacy policies, every website should be clearly labeled with one of 5 privacy levels, changeable with a click: 5. Nothing recorded 4. Data used for internal purposes only 3. Click to customize privacy 2. OK to share with third parties 1. OK to make public

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  13. Jul 3

    If machines took over, it would be like “War of the Worlds” with computer bugs instead of live ones.

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  14. Jun 28

    Crypto-currencies are everything you don’t understand about money combined with everything you don’t understand about computers. (John Oliver)

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  15. Jun 26
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  16. Retweeted
    Jun 23

    "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling et al, has changed my understanding of the world. It uses data to show me where and how I was wrong, and identifies 10 ways us humans consistently and wrongly misunderstand so many things. Please read it.

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  17. Jun 23

    Next up: combatting nanoaggression.

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  18. Retweeted
    Jun 22

    Who made this? 👏🏻...👏🏻...👏🏻

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  19. Jun 21

    Interesting. When you use an ML-style method to estimate the effect on climate of CO2 emissions, it comes out fairly small:

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  20. Jun 21

    AI - the story so far: 1. Manually encoding all the knowledge you need for AI is hopeless. 2. Purely empirical learning methods keep exceeding expectations, but have limitations. 3. Solution: A little knowledge + A lot of data. How to do this:

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