Research

  • The Fear of AI

    The Fear of AI

    Where the fear should be aimed. About a week ago I saw a post on Facebook by a man in Los Angeles who had stayed up until half past two in the morning to vent his fear. He posted  that it was over, that humanity had crossed a line from which there is no way…

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  • 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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