The Weekly Squeak — Augmented AI with Chris Longstaff of Mindtech

This week I speak with Chris Longstaff of Mindtech about their curious plan to help machine learning by augmenting datasets with synthetic data.

I also cover alternative calendars, the woes of WeWork, robot writers and more.

x Chinch

Podcast version

Here the podcast version of this newsletter below, including my full interview with Chris Longstaff.

The rise of robot authors: is the writing on the wall for human novelists?

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Will androids write novels about electric sheep? The dream, or nightmare, of totally machine-generated prose seemed to have come one step closer with the recent announcement of an artificial intelligence that could produce, all by itself, plausible news stories or fiction.

10 Bizarre Calendars From History — listverse.com
The Gregorian, Islamic, Chinese, and maybe Julian calendars are the most…