AI Free From Ideological Bias?
President Trump signed an order in late January to rescind a requirement that government avoid using AI tools that “unfairly discriminate” based on race or other attributes, and that developers disclose their most potent models to government regulators before unleashing
AI In Education: Just Say No
Illinois state legislators are looking to create rules for using AI in education and other public service areas, according to a story in the Chicago Tribune last week. I can make it easy for them: Just say no. Of course,
In Defense of AI-Generated Fiction?
Award-winning writer Jeanette Winterson thinks that an AI model can write good fiction and that we need more of it. In her essay, in The Guardian last week, she opines about a short story about grief written by a model
AI Replacing People? What Could Go Wrong?
We are going to see our government run by smart machines long before businesses do the same, and it looks like the transformation will be ugly. Elon Musk’s DOGE squads aren’t waiting for management consultants to draft complicated slide presentations
Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks
Boston Dynamics has revealed that it has figured out how to teach its old four-legged robots new tricks. Without human help. The technique is called reinforcement learning, which every human being relies on shortly after birth to teach ourselves how
Safe Superintelligence?
I was briefly encouraged last week by news that the guy who’d quit OpenAI because of its lapses in ethics had raised a billion dollars for his new company named Safe Superintelligence (“SSI”). In late 2023, news broke that Ilya
Government For AI, By AI, And Answerable To AI
Not so hidden in news about Elon Musk’s DOGE romp through US government offices is his intention to build an AI chatbot that will replace human bureaucrats. Well, it is kinda hidden, since most of the news stories are guarded