The Rise of Autonomous Code
The idea of code that can fix itself represents a monumental advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) and software development. However, this innovation has a dark counterpart: autonomous...
A Tribute To My Friend John
John was usually a man of few words and even fewer visitors. He'd kept to himself for as long as I'd known him - a grumpy, stubbornly solitary guy whose real passion was the hobby of remote control...
Assessing the Environmental and Human Cost of AI
The advent of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing. LLMs, which include tools like OpenAI's...
Sam Harris, Robert Sapolsky, Dan Dennett, and Rush Walk Into a Bar…
Do We Really Have Free Will? Ah, free will—everyone's favorite topic for debates that make your brain feel like it's trying to do yoga. The question is: Do we actually make our own choices, or is...