Artificial Intellignece

  • Research Is Not Engineering at a Slower Speed

    Three kinds of work, three success criteria, and why confusing them is costly. Early in my career I worked at Bell Labs, where one could work on any intellectually challenging problem, whether or not it had immediate relevance to the mothership AT&T. Later I worked at startups where the pressure to sell and ship was…

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  • From Spark to System (Part III)

    Where Does the Bridge Get Built? This is the third essay in the From Spark to System series. Part I: “Why the Real AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet.” Part II: “The Bridge That Was Never Built.” The previous two posts in this series built a framework. The first argued that the AI revolution most people…

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