Will An AI Monkey Ever Replicate Shakespeare?
Is hoping for consciousness to emerge from an ever-more complicated AI like waiting for a monkey to create a verbatim copy of Hamlet? I think it might be, though the toffs building and profiting from AI believe otherwise. Fei-Fei Li,
AI is a Tulip Crossed With An Edsel?
Assume for a moment that every naysayer is exactly right, and AI is the biggest, dumbest economic and social bubble in history of big, dumb bubbles. Its promises are part tulip and part Edsel. A fad mated with a clunker.
AI Moves In On Poetry
Not only can AI write in the style of famous poets, but it can also improve on their work, according to this story. Researchers at the University of Pittsburg asked ChatGPT-3.5 to create poems that would appear to have come
Once AI Controls the Past…
We talk about what AI might do to the future without noting that it’s already taking control of our past. New Scientist reports that about 1 in 20 Wikipedia pages contain AI-written content. The number is probably much higher, considering
Pooh-Pooh AI At Our Own Risk
AI pioneer Yann LeCun says that fears of the existential peril of AI are “complete B.S.” and that, in so many words, we’d be fools not to pursue its development. The Wall Street Journal story is hidden behind a paywall
AI? Let’s Go All In!
Google’s ex-CEO Eric Schmidt believes that AI growth demands for electricity will outpace any preventative measures to reduce harm to the environment (extraction, carbon emissions, etc.), our mitigation efforts aren’t going to work anyway, and we’ll risk “constraining” AI development.
AI & The Tradition of Regret
AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton won a Nobel Prize earlier this month for his work pioneering the neural networks that help make AI possible. Also, he believes that his creation will hasten the spread of misinformation, eliminate jobs, and might one