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The emptiness at the heart of emotion recognition
The strange science underlying one of ML's most problematic subfields
How the field of "AI" got like this
How did a field that touches nearly every aspect of human endeavor get so thoroughly engineer-brained
I knew this was coming
Why I've been waiting for Cruise to drive off the cliff they just did
The cost we bear
Autonomous cars are trying to transform an industry built on death, but is that the part they want to transform?
Understanding (and) psychology
Intuition and introspection fail people when it comes to behavioral measurement with implications from machine learning to race
The value-destroying potential of AI
A lot of the people trying to deploy AI as a business solution are doing it because they don't know how to measure what's valuable about their business
Helpful and unhelpful anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphizing LLMs isn't always incorrect, but the details are important
Is "artificial intelligence" as a term per se racist?
I think it's probably not but there are some reasons to worry
Knowing how to measure
Right know we don’t know what questions ML systems can answer, or what questions to ask them to find out.
Self-serving thought experiments
Debunking the aspirational dystopias of artificial general intelligence and the trolley problem
AI as UX
What it means in practical terms to claim a system uses "artificial intelligence"
LLMs, anthropocentric thinking, accuracy, and self-driving
What the current craze for large languge models can tell us about how autonomous cars will (and will not) work
The story Waze tells about problems with autonomous cars
The problems caused in cities by ubiquitous GPS navigation are really problems caused by automating part of driving
It's not clear anybody wants autonomous cars
The vehicles that people imagine can't exist
What is it all for
This newsletter, autonomous cars. I dunno, all of it.
What if we were actually trying to use technology to make cars safe?
It wouldn't look like autonomous cars
Computer vision is badly defined
A somewhat deep dive into why computers see the wrong things
The urbanist case for autonomous cars
A thing I don’t really believe
What autonomous cars see
How you drive is contingent on what you perceive