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Mo’ Code, Mo’ Problems
One of the truisms I learned early in my career is that every line of code you write is a liability as much as it is an asset. Every line of code you (or your team) writes is a line of code that must be maintained, a line of code that potentially exposes a security…
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Say Anything but AI
There’s an iconic scene in 1989’s Say Anything where John Cusack’s character Lloyd Dobler is asked by Ione Skye’s father what he plans to do for a career. He tries to dodge the question first, but when pressed says: I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t…
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Songs for the AI Age
Whether you are dystopian, utopian, or some kind of apocaloptimist, you need good tunes to accompany your efforts. Feel free to suggest additions in the comments
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The System Won’t Let Me Do That
The perennial concern about AI, and in particular Advance General Intelligence (AGI), has been that it will become self-aware and take over, making choices for humans that are in the best interest of the machines rather than the people. It was HAL 9000 (HAL being one letter off of IBM) and later Skynet. What I’ve…
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Wisdom Is Worth More Than Knowlege
Wisdom > Knowledge In the age of AI, wisdom is more important than knowledge. That doesn’t mean knowledge has no value: it’s difficult to imagine how one would apply wisdom that wasn’t grounded in knowledge. It just means the knowledge itself is increasingly available by other means. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.…
I previously blogged at Open Parenthesis, between 2005 and 2015. Slides from talks can also be seen at SlideShare and/or Speaker Deck.