The World Health Organisation estimate at least 2.8 million people die each year as a result of being overweight or obese. Ischaemic heart disease is the number one killer world wide, and is associated with risk factors such as smoking, lack of exercise, obesity, high blood cholesterol, poor diet, depression, and excessive alcohol consumption.
Language models are articulate, confident, and utterly without the emotional feedback loops that make human workers ultimately accountable. They are, in essence, the perfect corporate psychopath.
The decision-making class are being sold a bill of goods. They’re replacing accountable humans with unaccountable systems, and they can’t tell the difference.
My favourite definition of money came from Dawkins who said money is a formal token of delayed reciprocal altruism. The idea that you helped my friend, he gave you a shark’s tooth or a shell or a clam, and now I’ll return the favour.
The discourse around AI fails to define its core concept before subjecting us to foundation-destroying cognitive contagions. We should start by defining what exactly we mean by “Artificial Intelligence”.
Technical debt is bandied about the meeting rooms and corridors of tech startups and large enterprises, used to describe everything from messy code to lax security practices. And yet, its origins and pernicious effects are misunderstood.
Computers are fantastically naive. They compute rather than intuit, they calculate quickly and even more quickly fail to understand one’s intent. If you’ve ever programmed a computer, you’ll have encountered how unforgiving they can be. Operating systems and programming languages are fastidious collaborators who’ll refuse to cooperate over the tiniest indiscretion.
The measure of a modern software engineer in our attention economy is easily calculable thanks to companies like Microsoft acting both as bastion and companion in demonstrating one’s prowess.
I was walking through a London park recently, and while looking at the sky I started thinking about the ceiling above us.
Code represented in textual form obfuscates connections that must be understood before one can manipulate with confidence.