Like most of you, I’ve been using (although probably more aptly called “playing with”) Chat GPT and DALLE-2. You may have noticed that for the… Read More »A Toaster Went Back In Time And Toasted Bread For Dinosaurs
I have spent the better part of the past few years advocating for goods and services that cater to the inherent slothfulness in all human… Read More »Are We Ready To Give Up Agency To Save Time?
There are still some tasks that can only be accomplished by people. I remember going to Yahoo! back in 1995, just before everything exploded here… Read More »How To Use Humans And Machines To Perfect Curation
Recently, there was a story about an AI model that used 4chan to learn behaviors. Needless to say, the AI it created was pretty horrible.… Read More »Why AI Models Turn Out Bad: Its Our Fault
Stop Asking The Customer To Jump Through Your Hoops In some ideation sessions that I’ve been a part of when attendees start the description of… Read More »Humans Are Lazy
I have a confession to make – Elon Musk, and I have something in common – we both read and love Iain M. Banks, the… Read More »How To Actually Use Science Fiction To See Your Amazing Future
We’ve nearly reached the point – or have passed the point in some cases, where we can no longer operate without augmentation. When was the… Read More »We Can No Longer Live Our Lives Without Augmentation
“Oh, what a piece of work is man.” Have you ever just stopped and looked around you and marveled at everything around you? Unless you… Read More »Humans Are Awesome
In a previous post, I talked about how Amazon shut down their AI-guided recruiting experiment because they could not successfully drive out bias, for both… Read More »Eliminating Human Bias By Eliminating Humans.
Many futurists have made dire predictions of the future of work, based on the emerging capabilities of AI. I’ve heard numbers of jobs lost in… Read More »Don’t Panic! We Will Be Working With AI, Not For AI.
Is this really why we invented the internet? Wasn’t it supposed to connect every human on the planet to every other human on the planet,… Read More »How To Restore The Internet’s Awesome Original Purpose
Are you reading this blog post on a smartphone? Does your smartphone ever leave your side? Do you freak out if you ever misplace or… Read More »What’s So Bad About Being A Cyborg?
Many pundits far and wide talk about how our newest technologies will be eliminating millions of jobs. Artificial Intelligence (AI) mostly, in addition to other new… Read More »We Should Stop Worrying About Automation.