Russ Murray
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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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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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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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