Central, Intelligent Agents “In a few years, autonomous artificial-intelligence ‘agents’ could be performing all sorts of tasks for us, and may replace entire white-collar job functions, such as generating sales leads or writing code. … The implications of unleashing them on the world are likely to be small at first, but eventually they could realize…
An Inconvenient Truth: Smoke Signals Your cell phone has smokestack emissions. So too does your electric vehicle. The simple reason for this is that, here in the US, only 3.6% of energy supply in 2023 came from renewable sources such as wind, solar, hydroelectric and geothermal. Fossil fuels remain our predominant way of generating electricity.…
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” – Mark Twain (maybe) AI Generates Pink Elephant In the present day, Mark Twain’s (or Benjamin Disraeli’s?) supposed quote might better be recast as, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and hallucinations”. In our age of generative AI, the technology’s propensity…
OpenAI Whiplash One day, there’ll be a movie, or at least a Harvard Business Review analysis, about the board vs. CEO drama that unfolded at OpenAI in the autumn of 2023. Perhaps the conflict was simply a matter of office politics. Or, as has been more darkly hinted, perhaps the matter was due to the…