Experts creating the coronadoom may or may not have designed it as a weapon. They did, however, design it to kill. Maybe it got out accidentally—stupidity is always a likely explanation—or maybe […]

After months of rigorous investigation, and employing the most sophisticated computerized machine learning AI systems, a fundamental component, a key facet, an integral essential fact, a fact heretofore unnoticed, about the woke […]

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 to flag […]

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 invariant ones […]

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 unsettling? Has […]

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 of psychics, […]