Scott Robinson
Is AI Beyond Regulation?
Most reasonable people will agree that AI, unregulated (as it currently is), is a very dangerous thing. The question becomes, how is AI...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 4, 20234 min read
This Time It's Different
Let's begin with a reiteration of a point made prominently in this book’s predecessor: that point being, This time it’s different. That’s...
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Scott Robinson
Jun 11, 20236 min read
Skynet Fever
New technology has taken the world stage. And, as always happens when new technology takes the world stage, a loud chorus has arisen,...
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Scott Robinson
Jun 10, 20233 min read
Player Piano
It was 1952, and the idea of the modern digital computer was only a few years old – and unknown to the general public. But a newly-minted...
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Scott Robinson
May 29, 20233 min read
Tender Loving Care
Faced with the possibility of malevolent AI that does us harm – or AI that freely complies when humans use it to harm other humans – what...
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Scott Robinson
May 29, 20234 min read
Setting Fire to an Already-Toxic Social Media
One place where AI is very likely to punch, and punch hard, is in the domain of social media, which has done plenty of damage to society...
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Scott Robinson
May 29, 20233 min read
The End of an Epoch
It is not overstating to say that humanity is at a crossroads. It has been long anticipated, and goes by several names: the Fourth...
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Scott Robinson
May 27, 20234 min read
The Wise Old AI on the Mountain
The general truth that “anything a human being can do, AI can do better” is in the water supply, and of course that isn’t quite true....
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Scott Robinson
May 27, 20237 min read
Frase's Four Futures
Peter Frase offers a variation on Robert Costanza’s AI outcomes matrix in his book Four Futures: Life After Capitalism. It bears a lot of...
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Scott Robinson
May 26, 20235 min read
Analogical AI, or Lakoff's Rule
What else should we be thinking about, when AI gets analogical? This necessary step toward artificial general intelligence – connecting a...
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Scott Robinson
May 24, 20234 min read
The Corbomite Dilemma
In 2017, Google’s DeepMind team unveiled AlphaGo Zero, a game-playing AI that was a successor to AlphaGo, which had beaten Lee Sodel, the...
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Scott Robinson
May 24, 20235 min read
The Black Box Ding
Much is being written about how human-like generative AI seems, and just as much is being written about how that’s just an illusion;...
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Scott Robinson
May 20, 20235 min read
Children Behind the Wheel
Those of us who have serious concerns, or even fears, about the future we face as AI becomes part of our world are wildly diverse: these...
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Scott Robinson
May 17, 20235 min read
AI, Generally Speaking
Much of the disquiet over AI’s rapid advances is the growing fear that it will very soon catch up with us, and then blow right past us. A...
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Scott Robinson
May 17, 20234 min read
Doug Hofstadter's Terror
Melanie Mitchell, former student of Douglas Hofstadter and respected AI authority in her own right, recalled attending a conference at...
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Scott Robinson
May 14, 20235 min read
Constraining AI
AI is popping up everywhere, and that’s not going to stop. Ever. And it only takes a few minutes in a news feed to find reasons to be...
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Scott Robinson
May 14, 20234 min read
The Part That Really Scares Me
One aspect of the AI parade that I find both enjoyable and reassuring is the range of the response. While the world is tightly polarized,...
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Scott Robinson
May 13, 20233 min read
Master and Mule
As AI hype soars in the media, with dozens of new articles and blog posts pouring into everyone’s news feeds every day, it’s hard to...
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