Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

Comment of the Day: Ronald Brakels: Strong AI: "Just so you know, once we get something that can accurately transcribe podcasts that will be strong AI. It'll be some mightily powerful strong I. I'm not saying podcast transcribers are going to take over the world, but I am saying that we fix this one little annoying thing and we change the world beyond recognition...

Jason Snell: The Dream of Converting Podcasts into Text: "While... machine translations aren’t readable, they are getting good enough to fuel search engines. A great proof of concept is this one from David Smith...