Essays

Companies have been using tech to improve their performance for centuries and there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with automating processes and services. But there are some “big” questions about AI that Taco Bell’s owners are challenging us to ask.

The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act will only help ensure that the robot takeover is unstoppable. But thank goodness it will be orderly.

AI challenges our most basic assumptions about our rights as citizens, not to mention our rights as human beings

We’ve have been enlisted as subjects in this grand experiment. We aren’t informed about what’s happening, don’t possess the knowledge to understand or assess it, and haven’t an ounce of agency to do something about it.

Why spend hours sitting with a group of people debating some arcane aspect of life when GPT-4 can summarize the conversation and provide a conclusion for you?

OpenAI’s research is just another entry into the corpus of blather intended to make us think that they care about ethics and safety as they (and other tech firms) madly race to develop more powerful and therefore more threatening AI.

Combine compute power with vast amounts of data and there’s no reason why machines couldn’t do pretty much anything that you do. They just have to learn all the different circumstances in which “this” leads to “that.”

The tech industry is doing the same thing it did with the metaverse and social media: its gibberish is announcing its intentions to make tons of money as it pursues cool projects.