Artificial Intelligence

Here are some things I’ve asked chatgpt recently:

“why is Toblerone so popular at airport duty-free stores?”

“give me a recipe for a chickpea tagine - I only have a can of chickpeas, button mushrooms, a courgette and some capsicum”

“where should I go for dinner near the ace hotel in sydney?”

The tagine was okay. The restaurant recs from my friends were... See more

Most AI backlash is economic anxiety coated in a veneer of social justice. Alfalfa farming consumes 19 times the water that data centers do; there’s no sound environmental reason to boycott Claude but not GPS. When people say “AI is a moral stain,” they really mean: I am scared that I won’t be able to pay my bills.

EMBEDDED: Do you believe that the “artificial general intelligence” and “superintelligence” that many AI boosters have warned of actually pose a risk to humanity?

KAREN HAO: These terms are really poorly defined, so I generally loathe using them at all. But if we’re talking about the idea that AI could go rogue and destroy humanity? No. This is a h... See more

ISAACSON: In writing this memoir, you said the more you dug in, the more you remembered. How is human memory fundamentally different from computer memory?

GATES: It’s unbelievable how good humans are at discarding unimportant information and retaining what’s important. We evolved to find food and not get lost, things like that. So I can remember all... See more