Apperceptive (moved to buttondown)

Substackers Against Nazis

A collective letter to Substack leadership

Dec 14, 2023

The emptiness at the heart of emotion recognition

The strange science underlying one of ML's most problematic subfields

Dec 8, 2023

November 2023

How the field of "AI" got like this

How did a field that touches nearly every aspect of human endeavor get so thoroughly engineer-brained

Nov 2, 2023

October 2023

I knew this was coming

Why I've been waiting for Cruise to drive off the cliff they just did

Oct 27, 2023

September 2023

The cost we bear

Autonomous cars are trying to transform an industry built on death, but is that the part they want to transform?

Sep 22, 2023

August 2023

Understanding (and) psychology

Intuition and introspection fail people when it comes to behavioral measurement with implications from machine learning to race

Aug 9, 2023

July 2023

The value-destroying potential of AI

A lot of the people trying to deploy AI as a business solution are doing it because they don't know how to measure what's valuable about their business

Jul 31, 2023

Helpful and unhelpful anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphizing LLMs isn't always incorrect, but the details are important

Jul 26, 2023

May 2023

Is "artificial intelligence" as a term per se racist?

I think it's probably not but there are some reasons to worry

May 5, 2023

April 2023

Knowing how to measure

Right know we don’t know what questions ML systems can answer, or what questions to ask them to find out.

Apr 14, 2023

March 2023

Self-serving thought experiments

Debunking the aspirational dystopias of artificial general intelligence and the trolley problem

Mar 15, 2023

AI as UX

What it means in practical terms to claim a system uses "artificial intelligence"

Mar 2, 2023