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Someone at Noema (via OLDaily) suggests that people could be surveyed by an AI about “What do you want this technology to do for you, if anything?

On Sunday, the EU takes another step to push back against nasty AI (transparency), and the news are reporting about more runaway hacker attacks.

(No, not ‘train a model’, for a change, but indeed “model a train”: a model railway train.)

One sufficient, undisputed criterion for what AI should do, is certainly that what humans can also do themselves but must be repeated prohibitively often.

Once again, I have played with visualizing.

Once again, the discussion comes up if AI can have a consciousness, and so I’ll try to find my own stance.

This interesting post by Nik Bear Brown (via OLDaily) talks primarily about students’ trust in AI, as a “variable”, to be “calibrated” — which causes Downes to “digress”: “I do have an issue with defining ‘trust’ in any useful way.

I’m still grappling with the idea of ‘salience’ and ‘relevant similarity’ from a recent comment and my previous post.

Recently I had several occasions to think about being ‘conscious of ‘ something or ‘consciously’ perceiving or experiencing something.

Trying to respond to two recent questions from Stephen: “What does the world need me to do?”