November 2023
Given AI’s great potential, preventing it from turning into the sorcerer’s apprentice is the primary challenge
“I view this question as depending on what happens to current AI, meaning in practice, to current generative AI. For purposes of this exercise, let’s consider two possible outcomes for…
November 2023
‘AI’s ubiquity will tempt us to give up ownership, control and responsibility’
“Predicting the future is a tricky business under the best of circumstances and the world in 2023 is pretty far from the best of circumstances. At its core, AI is…
November 2023
We’re in a world in which misinformation can feed off prior hallucinations
“Advances in science and medicine will likely be accelerated through the use of AI, perhaps in ways that are currently unimaginable. “There is a great deal to be hoped for…
November 2023
As AI becomes ordinary, we must understand the presumptions we are encoding
“It’s a truism in the AI world that as soon as a technology becomes reliable, it’s no longer considered to be AI. Machine translation used to be the most interesting…