OK, I'm a little late to the party here - had a lot of "life stuff" going on the past few weeks - but I wanted to take some time to write up my thoughts on that (in)famous Apple "The Illusion of Thinking" paper. But before I get into the weeds with this, let me observe that what made the paper so "(in)famous" is as much the reaction to the paper from the various pundits and peanut-gallery of…
I have a T-shirt I wear sometimes, that reads "AI is like magic... but real." It's a nice bit of quirky, harmless fun. I wear it because it amuses me, and as a conversation starter. But it's a joke. AI is NOT magic. Why is this an important observation? Simply because too many people get caught up in the hype, and start to think that they can just cast the magic incantation "Use AI" and all of…
I'm generally a big believer in "learning in public" and emphasizing transparency, for numerous reasons. I won't detail those reasons now, but that might make a good blog post in its own right. But for now, I'm just going to share something that happened to me in the process of setting up this blog, where I made a series of mistakes that led to the initial install of my blog getting ransomwared!…
If you're reading this, congratulations! You've made your way to my new weblog (powered by Apache Roller!). More to come...