This talk is an argument for direction over prescription. I want to start with a very simple question. Think about a child who walked into your school this year. Five years old, maybe six. Can you picture someone specific? Good. Hold that. That child will finish school in 2037 or 2038. In a world we […]
Today I had an intutive chat with CHATgpt – I was watching an interview with Federico Faggin, an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is best known for designing the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. I was interested in his understanding of consciousness. So watching the interview below I thought: “Wow, it must […]
The Nomad is a growing collection of stories, fascinations, encounters, observations, lived moments — and the quiet (and not-so-quiet) joy hidden inside them.They’re all rooted in my life, wandering freely between places, people, questions, and unexpected turns. Many of these stories eventually find their way into the book — others insist on staying a little […]
I met BINA48 (= Breakthrough in Neural Architecture at 48 Exaflops/Exabytes) in 2012, two years after meeting the real Bina. BINA48 is a lifelike robot – just a head and shoulders – that blurs the line between human and machine. Created by Hanson Robotics at the request of Martine Rothblatt, BINA48 is modeled after Martine’s […]
Yesterday I finally got my account with OpenAI. I was hesitant to use the technology because I didn’t want to be part of making these things even smarter. Yet my curiosity took over and I started to playing around. I wasn’t more than 10 minutes on OpenAI. A few very simple questions about myself and […]