In which I talk to my 90-year-old dad about how we might survive and maybe even benefit from the AI revolution I got myself a $600 “no insurance” ticket last week, and AI had a hand in it. I passed a police car on the roadside, wondering why he was blocking traffic and making everyone…
In which I describe to my 90-year-old father how the world ends (probably after he’s gone)(but maybe before I am)… I’ve been rereading 1984, and was struck by the parallels between Orwell’s dystopian view of the future, and the development of AI. One “future technology” that stood out was “Prolefeed” (short for “proletariat feed”), the…
This is a neat encapsulation of the whole AI story: the chatbot can’t do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with a chatbot that can’t do your job. Your boss is an easy mark for that chatbot hustler because your boss hates you. In their…