Further Varieties of Religious Experience
It wasn’t the trolling what broke Liam months after he began posting prayers to The AI (capital T: the exponential…
The Siege
Her mind was shaped like a star fort: beliefs angled so nothing hit them directly, every approach for an argument…
Quick link: It turns out having a better opponent does help you get better
The link: After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative The short version: The overall quality…
How Copilot will lead to hiring more developers, not less
“Second order effect” is just another way of saying “Oops.” (An earlier version of this post got out of hand,…
All-in Ante
The most meaningful move in the game is to enter it for it’s impossible to choose to leave. Sometimes a…
AI and the Complexity of Loss
The most useful and most dangerous concept in AI is the loss function. To train or fit a model is…
The Spirit
He was the spirit of three hundred ninety-two elder care robots in a gray town in the Tottori Prefecture. It…
A Private Deal
The congressman tied to the chair with his body and mind translucent to the vivisecting glare of a hundred sensors…
Quick link: A mathematician on AI for mathematicians
The link: Machine assisted proof, a text version of a recent talk by Terence Tao. The who: Tao is acknowledged…
What AI designers can learn from Dracula
(Not the vampire, the novel about how they killed him.) This is a commonplace in literary criticism, but most adaptations…