Notes from the Electronic Cottage 9/30/15

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Guess what? Now we can all sing Happy Birthday in public without worrying about getting sued for copyright infringement, machines can learn on their own to lick humans at Pong and other classic video games, a robot can beat all humans at Rock Paper Scissors, and, as the Wall Street Journal put it “Facebook ‘Likes” Mean a Computer Knows You Better Than Your Mother.” Listen up.