by Dwayne Phillips There is so much information available to us, what do we do? Wait, there are also so many great summaries of information available to us. It is easier than ever to know a little. Is that a good thing? It is easier than ever to know a little: It is still just […]
Entries Tagged as 'Artificial Intelligence'
It’s Easier Than Ever to Know a Little
December 18th, 2023 · No Comments
Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Expertise · Knowledge · Learning · Research · Wikipedia · Writing
A Word Multiplier
October 23rd, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips These new chattering bots like ChatGPT are great word multipliers. Do we need word multipliers? That is the question. Try this at home: I am now up to 2,500 words in ten minutes. In another ten minutes I will have 5,000 words. In an hour I will have 50,000 words. 50,000 words […]
Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Questions · Software · Technology · Tools · Writing
AI Won’t Replace People
June 22nd, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes we attribute things we don’t like to things we don’t like. It’s easier that way, even though it isn’t reality. Well, here we have it: AI is replacing people. We can read it in the newspaper. Plain and simple. I link to one newspaper article. I could link to a dozen […]
Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Communication · Jobs · Management · People · Problems · Work
Don’t Believe…
June 8th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips We live in a world of fake photos, videos, voices, and accounts. Go back to some old country wisdom I heard as a teen. We can fake videos. We can fake voices. We can fake photograph. We can fake entire people. We can fake fake detectors (Does that make sense? Yes, it […]
Tags: Artificial Intelligence · General Systems Thinking · Knowledge
The (Un)Real Book Writers
May 29th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Some people are using text-generating software to write a book a day. The world changes daily. Some people change while some don’t. Here is a story about some folks in India(?) who are putting several books a day every day onto online book sellers. The same bunch of folks are writing glowing […]
Tags: Adapting · Artificial Intelligence · Jobs · Technology · Writing
Everybody Is Chattering (not)
May 25th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Let’s curb our enthusiasm about these chatbots and large language models multiplying productivity and costing jobs. I just saw another article about how ChatGPT and the like are being used in yet another field of endeavor with giant gains in productivity. We won’t need half the people we have in the office […]
Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Breathe · Change · Chaos · Fear · General Systems Thinking · Knowledge · Learning
Hobby Programming and AI (low-code/no-code)
May 22nd, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Recent advances in chatting or Q&A software has provided the ability to write simple computer programs. Hooray! There is a trend in the workplace called “low-code/no-code.” A person at work writes a ten-line computer program that is helpful in that it will do something in a minute that would take the person […]
Tags: Adapting · Artificial Intelligence · Change · Computing · Programming · Systems
Symbolic AI, Machine Learning, and Cows
May 18th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips The old ways of doing AI are still better than some of the new ways in some cases. The answer, of course, is to combine the best of all to do something better. Feed the following into a chatbot: “The cow jumped” The chatbot will finish with “over the moon.” That is […]
Tags: Artificial Intelligence · General Systems Thinking · Knowledge · Language · Learning · Machine Learning · Word
The Stupid Hunters (still hunting down stupid everywhere)
May 8th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Aha! I was sort of right. Now companies have teams of folks hunting down stupid in their systems to keep the world safe from stupid. Way back in 2015, I wrote a blog post about being a stupid hunter. This is not a hunter who is stupid, but a hunter whose job […]
Tags: Analysis · Artificial Intelligence · Competence · Stupid · Systems · Technology · Testing · Visibility · Work
Want AI to Succeed?
April 20th, 2023 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips I think OpenAI did this before I get around to writing this blog post, but if you want AI to succeed, stop calling it AI. There is a large part of society that doesn’t like “AI.” First, how do you pronounce “AI?” Is it “A” then “I” or it some word that […]
Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Computing · Culture · Data Science · Vocabulary