Tag: ai
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Gen AI part 2: Digital Fibrilation
The Australian Computer Society (ACS), of which I am a recent member, has published its Digital Pulse 2024, written by Deloitte, and… I’m not sure what they were thinking. Well, the part on diversity is important. Let’s make that clear to begin with. There are significant imbalances in the tech industry regarding gender, First Nations…
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Sober Up, Gen-AI
I will say this as gently as I can: generative AI is shit and you know it. Such pronouncements may seem to lack the nuance and subtlety expected of a computing academic and a science fiction writer (who writes about intelligent robots). But that is what it all boils down to. This isn’t a dig…
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Roger Penrose’s “Shadows of the Mind”
Sir Roger Penrose, a Nobel-prize-winning physicist, has the distinction of being (I believe) the most famous and gifted adherent to the view that artificial intelligence cannot and will not reach the point of human equivalence. He is a sceptic—perhaps the principal sceptic—of strong AI. In pursuit of this view, he’s written two key books: The…
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The Philosophy of Nova Sapiens
Isaac Asimov wrote[1]In the introduction to The Complete Robot (1982). that robots in science fiction fall into two categories: menace and pathos[2]Basically, the object of our empathy. I hadn’t come across the word “pathos” until I read this bit of Asimov.. Examples of both abound: The Terminator, The Matrix and Harlan Ellison’s I Have No…