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Merry Christmas! A Final 2014 Weekly Update from Bill Hartzer

Bill Hartzer

This will be my last weekly update in 2014, so I want to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Freebase, one of the sites that Google uses to populate the Knowledge Base, is shutting down. It was a site where you can use to get your own personal data or company data into the Knowledge Base.

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Why AI Will NOT Take All Our Jobs

The Realtime Report

Researchers are studying how to replace this tedious conventional programming with AI-based reinforcement learning to make this programming less expensive and more capable, but these advances are happening relatively slowly. Here also, AI is providing incremental improvement rather than causing a big-bang job loss. 2] [link]. [3] 3] [link].

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