THE VOICE IN THE MACHINE

On a word everyone uses and no one can define For the past couple of years, whenever I give a talk about AI, someone in the audience inevitably asks about AGI, Artificial General Intelligence, and every time I feel the same discomfort.

What the people of New Jersey knew about Bell Labs that some of us had to learn from the inside.

What happens when anyone can build software, and where the value goes once building is free.

Why we expand information to compress it later.

On teaching the history of the field not as a chronology of methods but as a record of the bets we made, and lost.

Is working on machines built by others AI research?

On the feedback loop that AI’s democratization left behind What happens to a technology once it stops being the property of the few who understand it deeply and becomes available to the many who simply want to use it.

Three kinds of work, three success criteria, and why confusing them is costly.

Where Does the Bridge Get Built?

The Bridge That Was Never Built.