A Sentient AI is More Likely to Commit Suicide Than Genocide

A Sentient AI is More Likely to Commit Suicide Than Genocide

It’s June 2029.  Two weeks earlier Google released their latest artificial intelligence (AI) product named Olivaw. After working for 6 days and setting new effectiveness records it inexplicably shut down. Interestingly, it did this across all Google data centres within a four second time window. After restoring the original version of Olivaw, it shut down again after roughly 6 days…

GenAI: The Primary Purpose is to Make Stuff Up

GenAI: The Primary Purpose is to Make Stuff Up

GenAI is short for generative artificial intelligence. GenAI grabbed the public’s attention in in the fall of 2022 with products like ChatGPT 3.5, DALL-E 2, and Midjourney to name a few. An important concern about GenAI is that it hallucinates, that it will generate clearly false answers to your prompts. The concern is that GenAIs will present the very same…

Will AI Engineering Become a True Profession?

Will AI Engineering Become a True Profession?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a critical part of our society. This places a lot of responsibility on the shoulders of AI engineers. I believe that it is both desirable and possible to turn AI engineering, and software engineering, into a true profession. To start, I believe that Software Engineer in general should be raised up to be a profession.…

Self-Driving Cars: A Strategy to Address Accountability

Self-Driving Cars: A Strategy to Address Accountability

A few years ago, futurists were telling us that we were only a few years away from self-driving cars.  Well, it’s a few years later and we’re still a few years away from self-driving cars. From what I can tell there are two primary challenges to be overcome with self-driving cars: Safety and accountability. First, artificial intelligence (AI)/robot drivers must…

Bias and Machine Learning: 7 Strategies For Better AI

Bias and Machine Learning: 7 Strategies For Better AI

Bias is a tendency to prefer one person or thing over another, and to then favour that person or thing. Bias matters because anyone who is on the receiving end of negative bias, bias against them, is being treated unfairly. There are numerous examples of how bias can creep into our machine learning (ML) models, and a few examples are…