There is a form of AI—AI is an acronym from the German meaning statistical modeling—that isn’t AI per se, but which is important, even crucial, but not of direct interest to us […]
O No! “Racist” AI!: The Ethics of AI?
Proof Probability & Statistics & AI Don’t Discover Cause
Everybody has read, or seen adaptations of, Bram Stocker’s documentation of Dracula, the undead count, unlate of Transylvania. From these pages and films, we all know how to kill a vampire. In […]
Yuval Noah Harari’s Bad Argument About AI Ruling The World
Here, in his own words, is the argument Yuval Noah Harari uses to justify his transhumanism. 1. Organisms are algorithms. Every animal — including Homo sapiens — is an assemblage of organic […]
New Scientific AI Computer Model Shows Experts Should Be Launched Into Space
Two exciting new models have been released. One says the vaccinated should fear the unvaccinated. The second, a new scientific Artificial Intelligence computer mathematical model, has concluded Experts should be launched into […]
AI Getting Too Good At Predicting Crime, So It’s Being Purged
If all we know about an American male is that he is an American male, we can use data on observed rates American males committed crimes to predict that this new American […]
AI Is Coming For You!
The picture heading the post is of an AI machine carrying a small child to a paperclip factory. Why is it every time I read one of these evil-AI-destroys-the-world stories the panicked […]
The Conceit of AI
It helps every time you hear “AI” to think “statistical model”. Because, of course, that’s what AI is. Statistical models layered with clever data processing, that is. Curve fitting. Saying “statistical model” […]
Researcher In AI Responds To Criticisms
I received this thoughtful, and may I say highly accurate, email from reader EN, which I include in full below. I removed the age and name to protect EN’s identity. I also […]
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