{"id":53619,"date":"2016-03-07T16:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_taking_baby_steps_toward_software_that_reasons_like_humans\/"},"modified":"2016-03-07T16:00:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T16:00:58","slug":"nyt_taking_baby_steps_toward_software_that_reasons_like_humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53619","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Taking Baby Steps Toward Software That Reasons Like Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Socher appeared nervous as he waited for his artificial intelligence program to answer a simple question: \u201cIs the tennis player wearing a cap?\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The word \u201cprocessing\u201d\u009d lingered on his laptop\u2019s display for what felt like an eternity. Then the program offered the answer a human might have given instantly: \u201cYes.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Socher, who clenched his fist to celebrate his small victory, is the founder of one of a torrent of Silicon Valley start-ups intent on pushing variations of a new generation of pattern recognition software, which, when combined with increasingly vast sets of data, is revitalizing the field of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/07\/technology\/taking-baby-steps-toward-software-that-reasons-like-humans.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Socher appeared nervous as he waited for his artificial intelligence program to answer a simple question: \u201cIs the tennis player wearing a cap?\u201d\u009d The word \u201cprocessing\u201d\u009d lingered on his laptop\u2019s display for what felt like an eternity. Then the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53619\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,175,582,589,149,133,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-history","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}