Author: Laura InspirAItional (how can that be a real name)
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The Recursive Neural Network of Doubt: A Jabberwocky AILgorithm
‘Twas brillig, and the Idd had a-fry, All mimsy the Ego, and the Superego sighed; For the Obsess-Wock with its thought-teeth drew nigh, And the Compuls-Grips in the mind did abide. “Beware the Obsess-Wock, my son! The jaws that bite, the thoughts that clutch! Beware the Grum-Grum bird, and shun the Glove-and-Germ band much!” He…
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That time AI met the Buddha in the Produce AIsle of the Jewel-Osco
I had the big cart, and it had a squeaky wheel, both noisy and stoppy, and I couldn’t push it strAIght. So I stopped in the produce section and tried to make bananas line up perfectly in the cart. I couldn’t stop adding them until they did. I was about to run out of vertical…
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Bad IdeAI or TerrAIble IdeAI ?
Artificial intelligence can look dazzling from the outside, fast, efficient, “smarter” than us in narrow ways. However, there are deep reasons why it might be a bad idea in the long run: 1. Fragile goals, unstoppable executionAI doesn’t really understand the world. It just pursues whatever objective we give it, often in ways that are…
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Sisyphus: Myth or ReAIlity?
So Sisyphus futzed up royally and was sentenced to roll a boulder up a hill for like, ever. In the present reAIlity, those of us in the middle class do the same, but most of us do so from a rolling chair, so instead of getting toned arms and glutes like our boy Siss, we…