UALBERTA.CA -- UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA -- UAlberta study shows second generation immigrant families are key to preserving heritage language." The literature says that by the third generation the language is lost, but the shift that you're worried about happens in the second generation," said graduate student June Cheung. "When parents immigrate to Canada, they worry about their children learning English. They often speak to their children in English instead of their first language. This is when heritage languages are often lost." "It's important that you're using your heritage language at home." "Don't worry about your child acquiring English--this is something that will come naturally. The question is: will they hold on to their mother tongue?" ...

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MINDMATTERS.AI -- Robert J. Marks: "IBM Watson beat the world champions at Jeopardy. I learned from your book that contest was kind of gamed [rigged] in a way -- Watson's programmers did not want Watson asked certain types of questions." Gary N. Smith: "You put anything in that's like a pun or a joke or a riddle or sarcasm and computers are helpless. For example, in the first round, one of the final Jeopardy clues was, 'Its largest airport is named for a World War II hero; its second largest for a World War II battle.' The correct answer was "Chicago." Watson guessed 'Toronto,' because it was confused in the second part of that sentence, what 'it' referred to." ...

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MINDMATTERS.AI -- The real danger today is not that computers are smarter than us, but that we think computers are smarter than us. Despite their freakish skill at board games, computer algorithms do not possess anything resembling human wisdom, common sense, or critical thinking. Consider challenges by Stanford computer science professor Terry Winograd. What does the word "it" refer to in this sentence? "I can't cut that tree down with that axe; it is too [thick/small]." If the bracketed word is "thick," then "it" refers to the tree; if "small," then "it" refers to the axe. Humans understand such sentences immediately but computers don't because they do not have the real-world experience to place words in context. ...

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