Humanistic AI
Scientists who study animal intelligence use a mirror test to assess a special kind of intelligence: self-awareness. Only great apes, dolphins, elephants, and magpies consistently pass the mirror test. Dogs and monkeys do not. Check out what we found with an octopus. The post Encounter with alien intelligence in my backyard appeared first on Tom Gruber .
Commencement speech for the class of 2025. These graduates are entering a world where many of the values of higher education are under attack, and AI is disrupting their job market. The speech addresses these sources of anxiety for new graduates, and offers reasons to be excited about the changes underway and ways to use their education to benefit from new opportunities. The post Anxiety and…
This essay introduced the metaphor of language savants in early 2023 as a short speech delivered to a CEO event. The post Language Savants: Risks and Opportunities of Generative BS appeared first on Tom Gruber .
Tom talks about some of the mentors that guided his philosophy on Humanistic AI. Ideas like focusing on human impact over metrics and the principles that shaped the creation of Siri. The post Guiding Principles For a Career appeared first on Tom Gruber .