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More and more human tasks are being taken over by technology – what does that say about us? The British anthropologist Richard Wrangham argues that we could only become truly ‘human’ once we were able to consume enough calories to fuel those bizarrely large brains of ours. With raw food, that’s simply not possible, he…
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How do we learn language? Children do this without effort. Adults usually need grammar and dictionaries to learn a language. How can computers work with language? The classical Natural Language Processing (pre ChatGPT) works like adults learn a language. The computer is given a list of nouns, verbs, grammar rules, word order and some other…
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“This time, it’s different!” Is it? Are we living in a special era, now that we’re witnessing the rise of AI, or will 22nd century historians just look at our excitement with mild curiosity? I started this blog series because I think it’s important to put the changes caused by AI in perspective. For most…
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Back when the term ‘big data’ was very new and extremely promising, we enthusiastically told each other, “data is the new oil!” The idea was that the raw material ‘data’ would lead to a huge boom in new and useful applications. That comparison might actually be more accurate than we thought. In my favorite metaphor…
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Last week, I read an interview in a technology magazine, where someone said “I heard that sending one photograph through Whatsapp equals X kilometers in a car”. That triggered my internal factchecker. Turns out that sending one Whatsapp photograph leads to the same amount of carbon exhaust as 0.3 millimeters (!) in a fuel car.…
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It is not very original to compare the current state of AI to the internet bubble (or dot-com crisis) of 25 years ago. Even Sam Altman (of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT) is already making remarks about the investments in AI, and the probability that the bubble will burst. But, except for the craziness in…
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How is AI made? Sometimes you hear “the Chinese make the computers, the Americans make the software, and Europe makes the laws”. Isn’t it better that Europe also focuses on making AI software and models, and focus a bit less on legal and ethical stuff? When I started my study Electrical Engineering back in the…
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I sometimes think about the wonder and surprise that a citizen from, say, 1253 would have when they would be transported to our time and day. What would she be amazed of? How to explain all those unknown things? One of the things that a medieval citizen would surely remark would be the omnipresence of…
AI gedachten / AI thoughts 