Technically-grounded AI musings with a humanistic slant
“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.” — B.F. Skinner In order to understand our current relationship to AI and where it might be headed, we must try to wrap our heads around some very big numbers. In doing so, though, we have a lot to learn about ourselves and […]
In Kyotowhen I hear the cuckoo singI long for Kyoto -Bashō I still remember the mixed feelings I had reading my first computer-generated haiku. It wasn’t Bashō, but it spoke to me somehow. This felt like a triumph, because I had written the software that wrote the poem, but also a bit confrontational, because I
Generative AI is set to automate many intellectual activities–but at what cost to our brain?
