I’ve noticed a shift in the AI conversation lately. Folks seem to be converging on the idea that “AI” means systems that create artifacts (text, images, video, sound, code) so similar to those made by humans that it is hard – for the untrained eye…
I attended three industry conferences (Bio-IT World, Rev4, and BIO) over the last four weeks. This post shares my big-picture takeaway from each conference, as well as a bit about how they stitch together. I think that I may be the only person who attended…
I used to make a pretty decent living installing the Linux operating system on bare metal servers. Nobody does that anymore, or at least nobody brags about it on social media, which is basically the same thing. It was a good gig. I traveled the…
More than 20 years ago, fresh out of school in the 90s, I built artificial intelligence (AI) systems for a military contractor. I trained neural nets, used natural language processing to populate decision support systems, experimented with genetic algorithms, and refined support vector machines. In…
A very smart and well informed colleague recently shared a thought that disturbed me. I’m writing it here mostly to get it out of my head, and also in the hopes that the eminently quotable Admiral Rickover will once again be proved right: “Weaknesses overlooked…
I get a fair amount of link spam in the comments on this site. Most of it is variations on the theme of “I like what you have done here, and I think you should work hard to expand your readership.” They usually put the…