More Data Won’t Fix It
To the Editor, I’d like to point out a misleading statement in this article about the sources of AI model hallucinations. Title: Top AI assistants misrepr...
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2025
2024
Hedging and Hawing about AI and Jobs
This is in reply to reading this article from the BBC, “AI to hit 40% of jobs and worsen inequality, IMF says” (January 15, 2024, Annabelle Liang, BBC)
That Which Dreams are Made Of
In William Shakespeare’s Tempest, the old wizard Prospero at one point famously opines…
Movie Liveblog - The Creator
It’s almost a new year and while I don’t always make New Year’s resolutions (and I definitely don’t always keep them for long) I feel this blog is in need of...
2023
The More Things Change…
Today I held 80 million year old dinosaur bones in my hands and used pics and brushes and glue to piece them back together into a rib. The tools I was using ...
It’s Made of People!
An idea that I have been converging on in discussions recently spawned by Chat-GPT is that, for the purposes of risk assessment and impact, we should to thin...
Path Wars Bonus : The End Credits
Path Wars II : The End Credits
Jedi Master Dijkstra
Using ChatGPT Stories as Anchors for Teaching
2022
Twitter Isn’t Even A Social Network
I’ve tried to write this blog post several times, and each time I get around to it my intro statement is no longer true.
Will Humans be in Control when using Artificial Intelligence Tools?
Some people ask if AI decision tools will always allow human input by 2035, I think that’s two questions in one.
Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations
This week the world lost two beautiful people who stood for hope, caring and kindness. These people happened to also be actors who most famously played chara...
The Ancient Battle Continues
Reposting now given the latest iteration of this neverending battle, because this never gets old.
Why Build a Meta-Verse?
Some spontaneous thoughts on the multiverse of metaverses and whether it’s all worth the effort.
Is AI Just a Passing Fad
Someone important recently expressed a thought to me along the following lines:
2021
Prediction and Causality - How Can Machine Learning be Used for COVID-19? Causality, ML and COVID-19
Abstract
Do all COVID Vaccines have the same Blood Clot Risk?
TL;DR - Maybe yes, but this study isn’t conclusive, mostly because they are so, incredibly few cases of the blood clot condition.
It’s Better to Know about Atmospheric Engineering than Be Surprised Later
The impact atmospheric engineering could be catastrophic or life saving. But the climate emergency is existential for humanity and all life on Earth. We can’...
A New Year’s Proposal for Ontario for Autonomous Driving
In Southern Ontario, one major low-hanging fruit is allowing some level of Autonomous Driving (AD) on the 400 series highways in the High Occupancy Vehicle (...
Self-Driving ‘Edge’ Cases Aren’t All That Edgy
This is the front of my car after driving for about 20 minutes on the road in average weather conditions on the 401 between Toronto and Waterloo in December ...
2019
ECML 2019 Notes
In September 2019 I had the good fortune to attend ECML 2019 in beautiful Wurzburg, Germany.