Artificial intelligence
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Overfitting Towards Blandness: The lowest common denominator
Our culture has become bland, as evidenced by fashion, building, cars, book covers, and household objects all looking the same. Even people seem to be…
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The Hundred-Light-Year Diary: A cautionary sci fi story
Thinking about forecasting and AI, I sometimes remember this story by Greg Egan. It was published as part of his collection Axiomatic. Here is my…
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Death by AI: If anyone builds It, everyone dies
The most likely cause of death today is AI. It’s a reasonable statement. The most common cause of death right now is ischemic heart disease,…
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Getting Started With AI: A guide
If you haven’t yet used AI, or if you’re thinking about paying for a premium AI, this is a good guide. I find paying for…
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Effective Mess: The garbage can model of organizations and the fractured entanglement of AI
Chaos always defeats order because it is better organized Terry Pratchett A few weeks ago, I shared a pointer to a podcast about the internal…
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In Tech America, AI Fact-Check You: My first time being corrected by ChatGPT
This happens to scientists fairly often: You remember some finding you came across a few weeks ago. You don’t remember where you read it, but…