How to become a centaur

Interesting article on how human intelligence and artificial intelligence can be seen as complements rather than substitutes.  Human+AI combinations have been shown to perform better than human or AI alone.  Why? AIs are best at choosing answers. Humans are best at choosing questions. The advent of AI is not a zero sum game.  The symbiotic…

Atul Gawande on AI

Tyler Cowen has one of his “Conversations” with Atul Gawande.  The interview is interesting throughout.  Below is an excerpt from their discussion on artificial intelligence. TYLER COWEN: …How far are we from having an AI that is capable of actually doing diagnosis to people? That is, they might speak into a Skype connection, something like Watson would…