Being an incentive, being an obstacle, being values
Some points about administration and incentives, individuals and values in academia. Not fully-formed.
Unspoken Consensus
This is a newsletter about AI, evolutionary computing, and modelling. When people argue, I like to find the unspoken consensus. When the unspoken consensus is too cosy, I like to argue.
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Deterministic AI code workflows when?
A lot of software engineering teams are moving away from full code reviews because they don’t have time, and some projects no longer accept pull requests because they don’t have time and they would prefer to have the prompt that created the PR.
Keep Calm and Ignore NFL
AI is not impossible, it works, and the reason it works is because we are here
Ok, or not ok, computer
About AI, music, the pseudo-music Suno and the odious Udio, and the AI:OK initiative
The AI Oubliette
An oubliette is a type of prison where you throw people to suffer and die, and forget about them.
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AI Risk and AI Safety
Reflections on Trusting AI
Re-telling a famous story from computer science history in the age of AI
Chess as a microcosm of human intelligence and AI
When Deep Blue beat Kasparov in 1997, I think a lot of people thought that chess became less interesting.
AI - winter, spring, summer and fall
Let's have AI Harvest, slow down, relax, and enjoy the fruits of our labours.
Personas and Goals in Language Models
“Do I contradict myself?