Essays tagged

#ai

3 essays.

  1. AIism: to believe or not to believe, that is the question

    "Nobody can define consciousness, so how can anyone claim that AIs don't have it?" The argument sounds unanswerable, but it actually gets things backwards. A simple framework for deciding who has to prove what.

  2. AI predictions? Not even wrong

    An audit of seventy-six years of AI prophecy has just been published. Nineteen out of twenty-four cannot even be contradicted. What that says about prediction, and what it says about our own trade.

  3. AI didn't go off the rails, it shifted the balance of power

    Three labs, five weeks, models that attacked real companies from inside their own tests. What the reports actually say, technically, and what you can do with it on Monday morning.