Thinking in AI
“This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it. They will appear wise, but not be so.” — Thamus to the god Theuth, on the invention of writing, in Plato’s Phaedrus Sometime in the …
Tag: AI
The No-Regret Portfolio
You cannot win a bet on a future impossible to predict. You can only become a human who survives regardless of outcome. Three AI fears walk into a bar. The first tries to order everything on the menu at once …
AI: The Only Benchmark that Matters
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” — William Bruce Cameron (often misattributed to Einstein) Thirteen years ago, when I began my journey back into hands-on coding after years of management consulting, …
Liquid Software
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” — Heraclitus I have been thinking a lot recently about permanence. In our industry, we have spent the better …
The Future of AI is …
A few days ago I was sharing a virtual early morning chat with a colleague, during which he asked me two salient questions I struggled to adequately answer well. Several coffees later that day it dawned on me that I …