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The cost we bear
Autonomous cars are trying to transform an industry built on death, but is that the part they want to transform?
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sam
August 2023
Understanding (and) psychology
Intuition and introspection fail people when it comes to behavioral measurement with implications from machine learning to race
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sam
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
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sam
Helpful and unhelpful anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphizing LLMs isn't always incorrect, but the details are important
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sam
May 2023
Is "artificial intelligence" as a term per se racist?
I think it's probably not but there are some reasons to worry
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sam
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.
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sam
March 2023
Self-serving thought experiments
Debunking the aspirational dystopias of artificial general intelligence and the trolley problem
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sam
AI as UX
What it means in practical terms to claim a system uses "artificial intelligence"
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sam
February 2023
LLMs, anthropocentric thinking, accuracy, and self-driving
What the current craze for large languge models can tell us about how autonomous cars will (and will not) work
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sam
October 2022
The story Waze tells about problems with autonomous cars
The problems caused in cities by ubiquitous GPS navigation are really problems caused by automating part of driving
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sam
September 2022
It's not clear anybody wants autonomous cars
The vehicles that people imagine can't exist
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sam
What is it all for
This newsletter, autonomous cars. I dunno, all of it.
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