The big story recently was that several Google engineers have come out saying that the AI chatbot that they created had become self-aware. It’s worth pausing and reading one of the engineer’s Medium posts — Blake Lemoine, to get a sense for yourself why he believes Google’s LaMDA has sentience…

When I was in my first year of university, I struggled a lot with my studies. I went into university a very confident 17-year-old and within a matter of weeks I was a frustrated, confused, and struggling student. Math in particular challenged me. I wasn’t a great calculus student in…

And how we need this to thrive with accelerating technology — Madonna is the artist who constantly reinvents herself. She started off “Like A Virgin” and a “Material Girl” then changed to a “Bad Girl”. Then, she became “Evita” and we didn’t cry for her, despite not being Argentina. She had “A Ray Of Light” and plead her “Confessions on the…

Recently, Waze started to give me trouble. I’d enter my usual destination and the app, instead of providing me with an estimated time of arrival (ETA) would just say “Connecting…”. It would still provide a route, albeit an offline one. It would continue to display the “Connecting…” error for the…

A look at AI after reading The Inevitable — The Inevitable

The coming flattening of future distribution — One of my favorite quotes that’s attributed to William Gibson is: “The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” The way I interpret this is that there are already advanced technologies that will change how we live our lives they’ve been implemented. But the mass adoption that…

What happens when two amazing storytellers meet? Four recommendations. A few months ago, Malcolm Gladwell joined Dan Carlin on his podcast Hardcore History Addendum, the companion show to his brilliant podcast Hardcore History. You must check out the episode (for free) here. …