Is Autopilot as smart as a horse? (another BASAAP story)
There was an article in the Verge, discussing a recent study by the NHTSA finding Tesla’s poorly designed driver-assist features have been linked to hundreds of...
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Is Aboard onto something, building with GenAI? (Bonus: BASAAP reference!)
I will admit (not that folks didn’t already know this) I am not really an original kind of guy.[1] Tho I do fool myself into thinking I am a decent remixe...
Does genAI have a (Gödel) incompleteness problem?
I use ChatGPT (whom I call Geoffrey) and, much more, recently, Claude (whom I call Claude), quite a bit. I use it as a sparring partner, helping me hone ideas a...
AI in the physical world
I’ve always been straddling the physical and the digital – thinking of how the two worlds interact and complement each other, and what it means for ...
What’s the fascination with humanoid robots?
I was reading an interesting article on the fusion of robots and LLMs (see link below). One concept in the article that caught my attention was ’embodied ...
Will adding AI to note-taking apps make us better thinkers?
Casey Newton from The Verge has an interesting ‘state of note-taking apps’ article. Prompted by the arrival of generative AI, he looks back at his u...
Bots all the way down, and a puppy reference
Bots have been around for a long time. Anyone who knows the history of AI remembers ELIZA, a conversation-mimicking AI that made you feel you were talking to a ...
Digging up an old article on social networks that turned out to be prophetic (and a bonus!)
I stumbled upon (pushed by alexdc, I think) this old article, by Chris Allen, from early 2005 about the maxing-out of social connections (link below). What stri...