The Head Fake of AI Regulation
There’s lots going on with AI regulation. The EU AI Act went live last month, the US, UK, and EU will sign-on to a treaty on AI later this week, and an AI bill is in the final stages of
Meet The New AI Boss
Since LLMs are only as good as the data on which they’re based, it should be no surprise that they can function properly and still be biased and wrong. A story by Kevin Roose in the New York Times illustrates
Prove You’re Not An AI
A group of AI research luminaries has declared the need for tools that distinguish human users from artificial ones. Such “Personhood Credentials,” or PHCs, would help people protect themselves from privacy and security threats, not to mention the proliferation of
AI’s Latest Hack: Biocomputing
AI researchers are fooling around with using living cells as computer chips. One company is even renting compute time on a platform that runs on human brain organoids. It’s worth talking about, even if the technology lurks at the haziest
Don’t Fall In Love With Your AI
You’re probably going to break up with your smart assistant. Your future life partner has just arrived. OpenAI’s new ChatGPT comes with a lifelike voice mode that can talk as naturally and fast as a human, throw out the occasional
Bias In AI
The latest headlines about AI are a reminder that most egregious biases relating to AI are held by the people talking about it. AI will improve the world. It may destroy it. My favorites are presumably thoughtful positions that say
Sympathy For AI
AI’s promoters have filled our minds with breathless promises of wonder that may or may not ever come true, transforming our adoption from reasoned decisions into acts of faith. This article from The Atlantic a few weeks ago says it’s