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What is Sentience?

As someone involved heavily in machine learning and AI, I often get called in to answer questions related to AI in pop culture- but the recent LaMDA interview has sparked more conversation on the topic than usual. In case you haven’t heard the news, a Google...

The Tyranny of 3 Dimensions

I grew up fat.  “Plump” might be a better term for a youngster who was athletic but also ate vast quantities of junk food.  Somehow I managed to compete in gymnastics with a frame that, inflated to adult size, had around 70 extra pounds that had to be...

They took our jerbs!

The replacement of “raw” manual labor or repetitive mental tasks with robots is definitely upon us.  This has to be the single most talked-about facet of the AI revolution, and I’d definitely agree that this level of job displacement (at least) is in...

The “Telescope Effect” in brainstorming

In my time working as a government scientist, I was able to work with a lot of cross-disciplinary teams, often putting math-and-code-heavy folks like myself together with domain-specific specialists like chemists or biologists who worked in wet labs more and made...