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  • On your bike to go shopping, but still use ChatGPT?

    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.…

  • We are back in the internet bubble of 25 years ago

    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…

  • What the AI Act has to do with food poisoning

    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…

  • Explain AI like you explain the concept “automobile” to someone from the Middle Ages

    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…