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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?
Sep 22
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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
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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
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Helpful and unhelpful anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphizing LLMs isn't always incorrect, but the details are important
Jul 26
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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
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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
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March 2023
Self-serving thought experiments
Debunking the aspirational dystopias of artificial general intelligence and the trolley problem
Mar 15
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AI as UX
What it means in practical terms to claim a system uses "artificial intelligence"
Mar 2
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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
Feb 16
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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
Oct 7, 2022
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September 2022
It's not clear anybody wants autonomous cars
The vehicles that people imagine can't exist
Sep 23, 2022
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What is it all for
This newsletter, autonomous cars. I dunno, all of it.
Sep 9, 2022
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