{"id":247540,"date":"2024-07-25T10:38:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T10:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/25\/why-machines-learn-a-clever-primer-makes-sense-of-what-makes-ai-possible\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:13:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:13:59","slug":"why-machines-learn-a-clever-primer-makes-sense-of-what-makes-ai-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/25\/why-machines-learn-a-clever-primer-makes-sense-of-what-makes-ai-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Machines Learn: A clever primer makes sense of what makes AI possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"899\" alt=\"Members of the medical staff at the Elithair clinic conduct an artificial Intelligence analysis of Felix Hofmann's scalp and his hair roots.\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23144226\/SEI_213323076.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23144226\/SEI_213323076.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23144226\/SEI_213323076.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23144226\/SEI_213323076.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23144226\/SEI_213323076.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23144226\/SEI_213323076.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23144226\/SEI_213323076.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23144226\/SEI_213323076.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23144226\/SEI_213323076.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23144226\/SEI_213323076.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23144226\/SEI_213323076.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23144226\/SEI_213323076.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23144226\/SEI_213323076.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23144226\/SEI_213323076.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23144226\/SEI_213323076.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23144226\/SEI_213323076.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23144226\/SEI_213323076.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23144226\/SEI_213323076.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23144226\/SEI_213323076.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23144226\/SEI_213323076.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23144226\/SEI_213323076.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2440749\" data-caption=\"Machine learning is key\u00a0to\u00a0developments in\u00a0medical diagnostics\" data-credit=\"Mario Heller\/Panos Pictures\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Machine learning is key\u00a0to\u00a0developments in\u00a0medical diagnostics<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Mario Heller\/Panos Pictures<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/446849\/why-machines-learn-by-ananthaswamy-anil\/9780241586488\">Why Machines Learn<\/a><\/strong><\/em><br \/><strong>Anil Ananthaswamy (Allen Lane (UK); Penguin Random House (US))<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As someone who writes for a living, I routinely feel assaulted by the onslaught of generative artificial intelligence. How long before I become a mere massager of prompted paragraphs, the joy of creation abandoned in favour of more, faster, cheaper?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/search\/?q=Anil%20Ananthaswamy&amp;editor%5B0%5D=Anil%20Ananthaswamy\">Anil Ananthaswamy\u2019s<\/a> <i>Why Machines Learn: The elegant maths behind modern AI<\/i> won\u2019t tell me or you about the future of AI in our society, nor what we should do about it. But whether you regard the algorithms used in facial recognition,\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26335010-300-a-skilful-primer-makes-sense-of-the-mathematics-beneath-ais-hood\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Machine learning is key\u00a0to\u00a0developments in\u00a0medical diagnostics Mario Heller\/Panos Pictures Why Machines LearnAnil Ananthaswamy (Allen Lane (UK); Penguin Random House (US)) As someone who writes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}