technology
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AI Told Me: It’s Not Intelligent.
Here’s what I asked ChatGPT: “Explain why AI is not really intelligence.” And here’s what ChatGPT told me: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a subfield of computer science and engineering that aims to create systems that can perform tasks that would normally require human intelligence, such as recognizing images, understanding natural language, playing games, and more.…
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When something goes awry in Google Translate.
When you go to a website in the Faroe Islands, it’s not in English, and something goes awry in Google Translate. Here’s a sample: Since it was web-domain and tech-related, I’m fairly sure this is NOT the correct translation, though I enjoyed imagining how “fee slag” and “move the ecstasy” could be played with in…
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Impossibility and Risk
In discussing a difficult, pending project, with many real and imagined obstacles, via email (an imperfect tool) with a partner and colleague. Business and product names have been [obscured] in the text below, to protect the [innocent] and/or [neurotic]. 🙂 <I wrote> As the French writer Andre Maurois said, “the world progresses thanks to impossible things,…
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Acronym Soup
As you may have noticed (how could you not?), the tech world is awash in jargon, lingo, languages, letters, numbers, texts, characters, codes, abbreviations, and initials — a veritable alphabet and acronym soup! In fact, the phrase “information technology” itself is rarely used any more, having been forcibly replaced by the now ubiquitous acronym “IT” which…
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More early fascination with technology…
I used to love going to where my dad worked. Over 20 years at Cambridge Instrument Co., he moved from clerk to personnel manager (HR). It was a factory in the downtown of my hometown Ossining, NY. They manufactured medical and industrial devices and had an electron microscope on premise! For me, it was a…
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Early fascination with technology…
Back in the day, I made all my own Halloween costumes, usually with the help of my father, sometimes my brother, and later on, my stepmother. Halloween (1966?) was was my first foray into technology — as a robot, maybe inspired by Robbie the Robot of Lost In Space — lovingly constructed out of tin…
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