AI practitioner turns Science Fiction into reality

Hesham Dar has been greatly influenced by Science Fiction in his work as a Data Scientist

Most people have dreamt about what the future looks like, but that future is already here for Hesham Dar – a Data Scientist and AI practitioner in Samsung Research. We talked with Hesham about how science fiction coloured his view on AI and how he wanted to be a part of developing the technology he saw on television shows such as Star Trek.

Reflections after reading A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins newest book A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence discusses how the brain uses map-like structures to model the world and what this might mean for our next leap in achieving true artificial intelligence. Continue reading to discover my reflections from reading the book. The book in three sentences The author presents…

Three things to know about machine learning

Machine learning is about learning from dataThe first thing to know about machine learning is that it’s often referred to as Artificial Intelligence by the popular media and they make it sound like the computer has become super intelligent and self-aware. In reality, machine learning – or AI – is just about learning patterns in…