My Problem With Pronouns
A conservative friend suggests banning all adjectives—eliminate identifiers entirely. “Conservative,” for example. Adjectives signal our opinion of a person, and sometimes that’s all. Relying on them exaggerates differences,...
No One Knows How Safe New Driver-Assistance Systems Really Are
This week, a US Department of Transportation report detailed the crashes that advanced driver-assistance systems have been involved in over the past year or so. Tesla’s advanced features,...
The arrival of crypto
Long dismissed and overlooked by the financial world, digital assets have hit the mainstream. After all, many crypto...
Blake Lemoine Says Google’s LaMDA AI Faces ‘Bigotry’
But it calls itself a person.Person and human are two very different things. Human is a biological term. It is not a human, and it knows it’s not...
The Soul of a New Machine Learning System
Hi, folks. Interesting that congressional hearings about January 6 are drawing NFL-style audiences. Can’t wait for the Peyton and Eli version!The Plain ViewThe world of AI was shaken...
It’s Time to Burn Medical Consent Forms
If we frame consent not as a bureaucratic speed bump, but as the first step in a trusted relationship between patients and researchers, the goal shifts. Instead of...
