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Million-dollar babies
As Silicon Valley fights for talent, universities struggle to hold on to their stars. That a computer program can repeatedly beat the world champion at Go, a complex board game, is a coup for the fast-moving field of artificial intelligence (AI). Another high-stakes game, however, is taking place behind the scenes, as firms compete to hire the smartest AI experts. Technology giants, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Baidu, are racing to expand their AI activities.
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Computer scientists like to think of themselves as super geniuses above all of humankind. Most of machine learning is glorified, nonlinear regression and classification tools that anybody with a passing knowledge of math and statistics could learn/use. This is much more about marketing than substance, but that's nothing new.