Ezra Klein, lead explainer over at Vox, needs to have direction of cause explained to him. He tweeted "leading AI models for processing hate speech were one-and-a-half times more likely…

Here's a tweet (addressed to Judea Pearl), "If you could get rid of all the spurious non causal correlations in a machine-learning model, you would be left with only the…

Here's the headline: "AI can predict when someone will die with unsettling accuracy: This isn't the first time experts have harnessed AI's predictive power for healthcare." Unsettling accuracy? Is accuracy…

There's a terrific book, well worth scoring a copy, by M. Lamar Keene called The Psychic Mafia. Keene tells the tale of Camp Chesterfield, a sort of outlet shopping mall…

We had a great many predictions for 2022, so many that it would tedious for list them all. Therefore, to shorten this, I'll only highlight the best, or worst, or…

https://twitter.com/ThingsWork/status/1051219022988173312 If you can't see the tweet above, click here. Practitioners of Strong AI believe that if we string enough of these ping-pong (or marble) machines together, rationality will emerge.…