Part 1: Profesor Melanie Mitchell. Computers lack common sense, at least for now.

 Maybe humans do too sometimes, but we are still way better than computers at common sense.  Dr. Mitchell, a computer scientist at Portland State University and the Santa Fe Institute, defines common sense as understanding the world around you by drawing inferences and making associations from other experiences.  Common sense, in other words, is associated with the ability to analogize – something humans do all the time but that computers aren’t particularly adept at ... yet.  Professor Mitchell’s new book, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, helps the world grasp the current state of AI and what machines are (and not) good at.  AfD Conference!  Troy and Lee are going to host a conference in late April or early May!  Details to come, so please check our website afdfintech.com regularly.  You can also follow us on Twitter at @AfDfintech.