Naming is Not Explaining
Two documents crossed my desk this month, in completely different areas, both making the same mistake.
The first is mundane: the vocabulary security people use to talk about AI systems. "The model
The Vacuum of Expertise
A few months ago in April, someone described a proposal floated in a government meeting: a ban on AI models above 100 billion parameters. The person relaying it wasn't a technologist.
The Wrong Variable
There is a question everyone asks about AI and one almost nobody asks about us. Will the system be aligned gets asked constantly, in every register, by people who disagree about nearly everything
What Happens Next
There is a question no one in the AI-in-education debate is asking clearly: what happens to the brain that doesn't do the work?
Not the brain that uses AI
The Graph Said So
There is a finding from a 2024 study published at the ACM CHI Conference that deserves more attention than it has received. Researchers analyzed nearly nine thousand COVID-19 data visualization posts on