Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by David Ferrucci
Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project
License This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
When your AI assistant writes your performance review: A glimpse into the future of work
When I asked my AI assistant how much time I’d spent working on a collaborative writing project with it, I wasn’t expecting an existential reflection on the future of work. I just wanted a number. What I got instead was a full audit of my intellectual labor—what I had written, when, how it evolved, and how long I spent on each part.
Introducing GLUCOSE, a dataset for commonsense causal explanation in stories
By David Ferrucci — AI scientist and entrepreneur; founder and CEO of Elemental Cognition Image credit: Leigh Prather / Shutterstock For computers to understand what they read, they need to know how the world works. Take, for example, the following story from the ROCStories corpus: Gage was riding his bike. A car turned in front of him. Gage turned his bike sharply. He fell off of his bike. Gage skinned his knee. To grasp what happened here, you rely on a lot of common sense.
Can super-parrots ever achieve language understanding?
By David Ferrucci — AI scientist and entrepreneur. Founder and CEO of Elemental Cognition. Parrot image credit: Teguh Mujiono/Shutterstock Computers that claim to “understand” language still lack world models — faithful representations of how objects and events relate to each other. As I established in my last post, you can reliably trip up today’s systems by asking about when events occur, where things are located, and why it’s all happening.
Why does AI get so confused by language?
In my last post, I shared some telling examples where computers failed to understand what they read. The errors they made were bizarre and fundamental. But why? Computers are clearly missing something, but can we more clearly pin down what? Let’s examine one specific error that sheds some light on the situation. My team ran an experiment where we took the same first-grade story I discussed last time, but truncated the final sentence: Fernando and Zoey go to a plant sale. They buy mint plants.
Kellogg prepares students for impact of human-machine intelligence
Through cutting-edge research, teaching and partnerships, Kellogg prepares students to lead through tech innovation News about technological developments is often accompanied by broad, buzz-worthy statements.
“Giving Offense is a Viewpoint”: Supreme Court Holds It Is Viewpoint Discrimination To Deny Trademark Protection For Allegedly Offensive Marks
In a decision that is being heralded as a victory for First Amendment freedoms, the United States Supreme Court struck down the so-called disparagement provision of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1052(a), on the basis that the law constitutes unlawful viewpoint discrimination. In Matal v.
“Giving Offense is a Viewpoint”: Supreme Court Holds It Is Viewpoint Discrimination to Deny Trademark Protection for Allegedly Offensive Marks
In a decision that is being heralded as a victory for First Amendment freedoms, the United States Supreme Court struck down the so-called disparagement provision of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §1052(a), on the basis that the law constitutes unlawful viewpoint discrimination. In Matal v.
Bricks Through Windows, Protection Tax Schemes, and Early Dismissal of Civil RICO Claims
Toward the end of HBO’s legendary television series, The Sopranos, a classic racketeering scheme is presented. Two members of Tony Soprano’s crime family enter a Starbucks-like, big-box coffee store and speak to the manager.
Bricks Through Windows, Protection Tax Schemes, And Early Dismissal of Civil RICO Claims
Toward the end of HBO’s legendary television series, The Sopranos, a classic racketeering scheme is presented. Two members of Tony Soprano’s crime family enter a Starbucks-like, big-box coffee store and speak to the manager.
Building the Team That Built Watson (Published 2012)
THE assignment was one of the biggest challenges in the field of artificial intelligence: build a computer smart enough to beat grand champions at the game of “Jeopardy.” When I stepped up to lead the team at I.B.M. that would create this computer, called Watson, I knew the task would be formidable. The computer would have to answer an unpredictable variety of complex questions with confidence, precision and speed.
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with David
Contact David, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack