Month: February 2023

  • Epistemology

    AI makes it easier than ever to generate content. Half asleep, you slug through tranches of entertaining content, impossible to curate. Content generators and consumers are everywhere.  The Internet is available to all. But the news isn’t all good. We are encompassed all around by liars and connivers seeking ill-gotten wealth and fame. It is…

  • Bridges

    Crossing A Bridge. My work requires I make reports. I need explain a lot. That’s why I’m enthusiastic about my first interactions with the AI program Chat GPT. My issue is crossing bridges. I like being psyched to start a task, and now I can have a first approximation of a report simply by texting…

  • Roger Penrose

    Roger Penrose aged 91, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020, is famous for his theory of Black Holes and singularities. Einstein didn’t like the idea. But black holes that Penrose predicted were later found to exist in great numbers. Indeed black holes are thought to inhabit nearly all galaxies.  I remember reading his…

  • Mission

    I’m working to relate neurobiology to other fields. Such may bear on AI, the Arts, History, Literature, modern culture. For example, self driving vehicles, medical diagnostic programs, robots, will require human supervision for the foreseeable future. Could it be the rote algorithmic rote programs lack the awake mindful decision making of biological entities? Machines switched…