AI4 2023
I recently attended the AI4 2023 conference in Las Vegas. There were MANY discussions and presentations about Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). But there was also a major theme in the keynotes around AI governance, including aligning AI with business-specific values, data engineering, …
How should we understand the word “Understand”
What does the word “understand” mean?. From the outside, is it possible to know whether someone — or some AI — “understands” you. What does that even mean? I assert that if you “understand” something, then you can answer questions and perform tasks based on …
Complex Adaptive Systems
John H. Miller and Scott E. Page, in their book Complex Adaptive Systems, discuss a number of topics we all presume we know, but that are seldom explicitly discussed. For example, they have really nice descriptions of modeling and emergence. They also talk about “computation …