Topic
AI
A collection of 81 issues
The Folly of AI Predictions, the Wisdom of AI Preparedness
The Axeman Cometh – and Other News
AI, Tech Layoffs, and Me
Buckle up, dear readers, because today’s excursion features twists, turns, intrigue, and personal reflections on the precarious nature of trust during a time that calls for vigilance bordering on paranoia.
I have read in recent months, including this week, that LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, continues to shed significant numbers
AI’s Energy Paradox Yields Challenges and Opportunities
Podcast Appearance, Plus a Review of Recent News
Ethics and Technology: From Neutral Infrastructure to the Age of AI
From its inception, going back to the postwar (World War II) period, the technology industry was heavily involved in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of infrastructure. Initially, the infrastructure was vertically integrated hardware and software. More recently, software has come to predominate, with the rise of disaggregation, where hardware
Is AI the Capstone of Tech Feudalism?
Amid the Media Deluge: Revisiting AI’s Big Questions
News articles, feature stories, and opinion pieces about artificial intelligence are proliferating wildly. If the technological advance of AI is outpacing its media coverage, then all the optimistic and pessimistic AI scenarios that philosophers, pundits, and scientists have propounded might materialize sooner than expected. Unfortunately, the worst of the pessimistic
Past is Prologue, and Forewarned is Forearmed
I remember clearly when I first experienced the World Wide Web (WWW). I was visiting the Toronto office of the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) during the spring of 1991, and a group of developers asked whether I’d be interested in taking a trip through cyberspace. At first, I thought