Category: opinions
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Are AIs Intelligent and does it matter?
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Years ago, I asked a very intelligent friend what he thought of Artificial Intelligence. After the briefest pause he replied, “I think we are a pretty good simulation of it.” It took me a moment to understand what he meant. I guess Turing had it right in 1950 (or Denis…
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Can we build our own AI?
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Yes we can! What we have today is a form of AI that is trained to solve a particular problem. (Let’s save Chat-GPT et al until later.) We’ll focus on machine learning using neural networks. We start with a set of data about a particular problem. It could be handwritten…
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Why use AI in creative tasks?
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I first considered this question forty years ago. In the early 80s I had become fascinated with the use of computers in art and design. Studying architecture, I was frustrated with the process of drawing my designs and intrigued by the promise of computer aided design. I have always had…
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Quality Product Time
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Having decided to give up full-time work my successor and I decided that we should make a final trip together to visit key customers in the US. It was a great trip to NY and LA, visiting many of the major post-production, film and television production facilities. At one such…
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Why Autonomous Vehicles Will Never Live up to the Promise
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The problem of 99% products and what to do about it.
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User Time vs Compute Time
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We obsess about how long an operation takes in software rather than its impact on the user.
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Standards, Sockets and Secret Sauce
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Standards may be good for some, but it can hinder innovation for others?
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