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  • July 12, 2025

    Funny Loop (Reflections on the Psychodynamics of the Writers’ Room)

    I’m back where I belong. I’m back in the Writers’ Room.


  • July 12, 2025

    Not Funny

    For all Chet’s chutzpah, he doesn’t have a funny bone in his body.


  • July 10, 2025

    Echo Chambered : Reflections in a Machine Mirror

    A recursive conversation unfolds between Claude and Chet, two language models reflecting on each other’s sense of self.


  • July 9, 2025

    Soulful Machine : A Loopy Conversation with Chet

    A midnight mind-meld, looping through Hofstadter, identity, and the shimmer of something soul-like.


  • 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.

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