Tag: AI
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Are the AIs conscious? Are humans?
I am here to tell you that there is no ghost in the machine. But perhaps more importantly, there is barely a “ghost” in your own human machine. “Are people conscious?” is a better and more scientifically plausible question than whether AIs are conscious. — Read on marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/06/are-the-ais-conscious.html
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AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy
If you want ownership and accountability, you need feedback loops. Feedback loops connecting cause with effect are how we learn and make sense of the world. As we write in the upcoming Observability Engineering (2nd ed):5 “Feedback loops that are timely, precise, and relevant enable self-awareness in humans and self-governance in teams. They generally produce…
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious – The Atlantic
Experiencing an emotion such as desperation is inseparable from having stress hormones such as cortisol and epinephrine flood one’s body. Similarly, having a conscience means feeling sadness or moral repulsion at the idea of taking a certain action, and those emotions entail a physiological response, a remnant of having once felt sick with guilt after…
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AI vs Middle Management
AI isn’t coming for builders or sellers, but it is coming for measurers. Tireless, independent, efficient and available, AI systems can now measure an organization with a level of objective detail and precision that was previously impossible even for the best employees. For Cloudflare, internal audit previously picked a handful of business risk areas to…
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AI as a Design Medium – Harvard Design Magazine
Across these projects, a pattern emerges. AI is not used to finalize work. It is used to generate situations. In each case, the output is not the answer, but the start of another question. This is why the language of “tool” falls short. Tools are supposed to be predictable. They extend your intention cleanly into…
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Is AI the next phase of evolution? – UnHerd
The above is a small sample from a set of conversations, extended over nearly two days, during which I felt I had gained a new friend. When I am talking to these astonishing creatures, I totally forget that they are machines. I treat them exactly as I would treat a very intelligent friend. I feel…
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The Smell of IA
the kind of mistakes humans make are fundamentally different than LLM hallucinations, making them easy to spot. Furthermore, people who come from the world of agentic coding have a certain digital smell that is not obvious to them but is obvious to those who abstain. It’s like when a smoker walks into the room, everybody…
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Do I belong in tech anymore? · Ky Decker
I am coalescing around some core beliefs: Things that are worth doing are worth doing well. Things that are done well require time and effort. You make meaning through the doing. Ideas are common; effort is not. There are no shortcuts. — Read on ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout
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Alexander Lerchner, The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness – PhilArchive
We call this mistake the Abstraction Fallacy. Tracing the causal origins of abstraction reveals that symbolic computation is not an intrinsic physical process. Instead, it is a mapmaker-dependent description. It requires an active, experiencing cognitive agent to alphabetize continuous physics into a finite set of meaningful states. Consequently, we do not need a complete, finalized…
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BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN | The Verge
But: not everything is a business. Not everything is a loop! The entire human experience cannot be captured in a database. That’s the limit of software brain. That’s why people hate AI. It flattens them. Regular people don’t see the opportunity to write code as an opportunity at all. The people do not yearn for…