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Knowledge and Understanding Aren’t Generated From Bullet Points
One constant throughout the generative AI craze is summarization. Why read a book, listen to a podcast, or YouTube video… Just summarize it! Large swaths of content, distilled into several bullet points with countless hours saved. However, this isn’t the utopia many claim. We all love a good shortcut. Humans are wired for them. This Read more
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Daily AI Overreliance and the Personas of Personal AI
As a kid, I had some rather eclectic reading habits. One of the books I read was Ki in Daily Life by Koichi Tohei. I read it in a quest to unify my mind and body. I was a kid. I had no idea what that meant. At the time, I was fascinated by how Read more
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Deepfakes, Slop, and Elections: Answering The Wrong Questions
Even though the 2024 US election is less than two weeks away, we are still being bombarded with news reports and experts blaring on about the dangers of deepfakes for this election. When I was recently traveling abroad, I witnessed the BBC host self-proclaimed “experts” from the US predicting the catastrophic impacts deepfakes would play Read more
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Be Fearless Podcast Appearance
In August, I sat down on the show floor of DEF CON to discuss a variety of topics with Vivek Ramachandran, the founder of SquareX. Our conversation covered a variety of topics, including AI at the intersection of humanity and technology. You can listen to the podcast using your favorite platform, or feel free to Read more
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The Techno-Utopia Is Not Near: Addressing Ray Kurzweil’s Nonsense
In just a few short years, we’ll not only have achieved AGI but live in a world of abundance. Physical goods will be so cheap that they’ll basically be free, and we’ll be able to 3D print anything we’d like. One can only assume with their free 3D printer. We’ll connect our brains to the Read more
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Conversation with CIO.Inc on AI Safety and Security
I had a great conversation with Aseem Jakhar for CIO.inc and iSMG. We covered topics surrounding AI Safety and Security as well as deepfakes. I explained why I don’t think the misinformation aspect of deepfakes will affect the outcome of elections and provided my opinion on deepfake detectors. We also discuss how we think we Read more
