netsettlement

Setting the stage In the early 1980s, after graduating from MIT, I worked at the MIT AI Lab on a project called the Programmer...

Large, furry canaries Quite honestly, as I was skimming BlueSky and my eyes fell on the middle of a recent thread by Naomi Kle...

Setting the stage I need to give a name to something, a name for a problem I keep waiting for the “AI” community to solve. I...

Rhyme, and reason In the early days of the World Wide Web (WWW) cartoonist Peter Steiner created a cartoon depicting a dog...

Putting on the brakes I try to always put “AI” in quotes because I do not personally think Large Language Models (LLMs) are artif...

Rights to relevance in a changing world The world is difficult enough these days, and then along comes “AI.” Just the presence of...

Language is power We go to dictionaries to settle disputes about the meanings of words. And yet, oddly, we didn't learn lang...