Make Up Your Mind

What a week for AI in the news! I saw a tweet that said “Everyone who works in AI is exhausted”. I heard a similar comment from Kevin Roose on his Hard Fork podcast this morning. I watched Microsoft introduce its “Co-pilot” AI yesterday and that presentation alone was a mind-blowing look at what’s coming Continue reading

Yesterday I wrote about Google and Microsoft trying to compete on each other’s turf by adding generative AI to their search and productivity products. CNN reported later yesterday that Meta is also planning to go all-in on AI, adding generative AI to their products (and apparently pivoting from their focus on the metaverse). I called Continue reading

I started this blog on February 14, 2023, with a story about how I introduced my family to ChatGPT by writing a story for my grandson. It was a story about writing a story, and about how it feels to collaborate with AI to produce something. I want to write more about that topic – Continue reading

Microsoft has started making changes to its Bing chat interface. The screenshot I posted here is from March, 2023. It’s different than it was in February, and I expect it will continue to evolve. In its rush to get its shiny new technology object into the market, Microsoft launched a tool that can do very Continue reading

The debate about whether AI can become “sentient” or “conscious” has a long history. A related, but separate question is whether an AI has achieved human-level intelligence, or artificial general intelligence (AGI). I want to touch on AGI briefly, and get into the question of consciousness a bit more deeply. Chat GPT, Bing, and Bard, Continue reading

My first post was about a children’s story I had Chat GPT write, with my instructions, for my grandson.   I wrote about the mixed feelings about my role in “creating” the story.  In the following days, I read about a controversy over someone who had written and published children’s stories using Chat GPT.  The central Continue reading

US Supreme Court Justice Kagan illustrated a key problem in our legal system. The courts and Congress are struggling to get a handle on the complex problems that arise when AI is driving what companies are doing. Yesterday, I wrote about how it’s a problem for HR leaders and Labor attorneys, when AI is involved Continue reading

The Washington Post handed me a topic to write about today, but I’ve written a lot about problems, so after I write about “Layoffs” I’ll close with a Good News story from my desk research. Before I get into those topics, though, I want to say something about the difference between AI and human intelligence. Continue reading

AI history is being made in February, 2023. Last week it was a sensational debut of the new Bing chat bot. This week (tomorrow), Google’s AI algorithm that decides what to display or not display on YouTube goes before the US Supreme Court in the case of Gonzalez v. Google. An algorithm is a set Continue reading