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  • May 18, 2025

    OODA Loop

    We used to navigate by the stars. Now we have 2.7 seconds to decide who lives and dies. Welcome to the OODA loop.


  • August 26, 2024

    Seeing the Light : Fei-fei Li and the Dawn of AI

    Fei-fei Li has had a front-row seat to the cutting-edge development of AI over the past couple of decades. Her biography is captivating.


  • May 28, 2024

    A Personal Journey Towards Extended Intelligence, or: Getting Intimate With Chet

    I’ve come to allow “Chet” entry to my most private quarters.


  • March 12, 2024

    When the Robot Overlords Come to Take Your Job, This is What It’ll Sound Like

    When doomers predict that AI will steal our jobs, we picture remote and futuristic scenarios. The real threat is mundane and it’s happening now, right before our noses.


  • February 6, 2024

    Finally Proof: the Limits to AI Are Not What We Thought They Were

    In a funny kind of way, a study like this seems to produce knowledge which extends our ignorance.


  • January 19, 2024

    The Enemy Within

    The nazis couldn’t resist the urge to separate themselves from non-arian elements, just as the post-war US establishment couldn’t resist the temptation to go witch-hunting communists. What causes this type of psycho-political auto immune disorder?


  • January 12, 2024

    The ‘A’ in AI

    Artificial or Augmented, which team do you root for?


  • May 25, 2023

    Sundar Pichai in da House : Google’s CEO on AI, the Digital Divide and the Future of Robotics

    His soft spoken reflectiveness feels about as far away from your typical tech-bro as is possible to imagine.


  • April 19, 2023

    Things I Didn’t Know About IP Protection

    Just because it’s patentable doesn’t mean it works.


  • March 30, 2023

    A Brief History of AI

    Artificial intelligence was always a natural part of the landscape, but it failed to really capture my attention. That recently changed.


  • February 20, 2023

    Not Deployed Here

    In startup parlance, one could say that America is failing to capture enough of the value it creates.


  • January 12, 2023

    Good Grief, Bad Grief : How Tech is Threatening to Disrupt Mourning (And How Facing Climate Change Can Come to the Rescue)

    What a prospect to think that one day we won’t be able to tell the difference between a zoom call and talking to the dead.


  • June 2, 2022

    The Better Deep Learning Gets, the More Vulnerable It Is to Adversarial Attacks

    These are not your ordinary run of the mill cyber security threats. Adversarial attacks don’t rely on exploiting bugs.


  • May 30, 2022

    Now You See Me, Now You Don’t : Adversarial Patching Brings Serious Trust Issues to Machine Learning

    A brief seven years after Gibson’s far fetched futurism, science fiction has become a reality. Does that mean we’re screwed?


  • November 10, 2020

    Ghost in the Machine : A Brief History of AI in Therapy

    Machine based therapy would be the ultimate proof of generalised artificial intelligence. I’d like to think it’s not too much to expect.

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