Scott Robinson
Grow from Go
Above, Melanie Mitchell has reminded us that the abstract activities of chess and Go – two applications that AI put human beings firmly...
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Scott Robinson
May 25, 202311 min read
Hofstadter's Eight
We’ve already noted that Douglas Hofstadter, in his seminal Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, established baselines for both...
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Scott Robinson
May 24, 20234 min read
Star Trek, Big Government, Ecotopia & Mad Max
When considering our AI future, the new human era of human-machine integration, there are numerous scenarios we are obliged to evaluate....
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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
For Our Grandchildren's Grandchildren
There’s much debate over how soon AI and robots are going to strip away human labor, with predictions (documented elsewhere in this book)...
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Scott Robinson
May 24, 20232 min read
Grandparenting AI
I have a grandson named JJ. He’s a college freshman, studying to be an engineer. He’s bright, focused, curious, and industrious –...
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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 23, 202322 min read
The Coming Decimation of the Job Market
You probably see some, if not all, of these headlines every day at this point: AI is going to cause a global financial meltdown AI can do...
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Scott Robinson
May 22, 20233 min read
The Hamburger Problem
AI expert Melanie Mitchell underscores the realities of natural language processing by way of the Hamburger Problem – a brief thought...
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Scott Robinson
May 20, 20236 min read
The Views from 2050
The Millennium Project, a think tank belonging to the World Federation of United Nations Associations, in its State of the Future 19.1...
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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 20, 20233 min read
Echoes of Asimov
We don’t often think of AIs in the Internet as robots, but robots they are – just as HAL was. They don’t have to walk on four legs to...
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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 Coffee Test
In the face of ChatGPT, the Turing Test now seems passé. Alexa and Siri took us close to the edge years ago, of course, offering us...
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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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Scott Robinson
May 13, 20234 min read
AI and Freddie Mercury
So I’m having lunch with two of my adult children, and we're talking about the impact of AI on the job market – in creative domains in...
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Scott Robinson
May 13, 20233 min read
Getting Out in Front of It...
So I’m having lunch with two of my adult children, who have recently been venting about how AI is encroaching into their career space....
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