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Cicero and chatGPT — signs of AI progress?

December 12, 2022 by Gerben Wierda

Cicero, a model by facebook Meta, was able to win from humans in one of the best board games in the world: Diplomacy, a very impressive feat. More on that below. Let’s move to chatGPT first, the language model that… Read More Cicero and ch…

Categories AI, All Posts, Background Knowledge, Brittle Logic, For the Board, Information Revolution, Information Revolution 4 Tags #eavoices

It is life, Jim. But not as we know it.

July 7, 2022 by Gerben Wierda

Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer, has claimed the LaMDA language neural net chatbot is sentient, is alive. Nonsense on stilts, according to one critic.
A musing about the meaning of ‘life’. And abortion. And doubt. And the point Lemoine has but doesn…

Categories abortion, AI, All Posts, Brittle Logic, consciousness, GPT3, intelligence, LaMDA, language, logic, off topic, sentience Tags #eavoices, Life

Does Google’s ‘Quantum Supremacy’ means QM Computing has arrived? Not so fast.

September 1, 2021 by Gerben Wierda

Follow-up to the earlier explanatory and critical post on Quantum Computing which addresses Google’s ‘quantum supremacy’ achievement.

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Flexplekmaffia

June 17, 2021 by Gerben Wierda

Dit verhaal gaat over een nieuwe hype over ‘Het Nieuwe Werken’. Maar we gaan eerst even ver terug in de tijd. En schijnbaar naar een volstrekt ongerelateerd onderwerp. Logisch klinkende simplistische onzin Ergens in 1999 waren ‘wij&#8…

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Is Your Consultant a Parasite?

June 6, 2021 by Gerben Wierda

Good consultants do exist. But so do parasitic ones. This story is about why they happen and how to spot them.

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How well does your top management understand IT?

April 30, 2021 by Gerben Wierda

I am proposing a way to ‘measure’ the ‘understanding’ the top of an organisation has — how capable it is of making informed strategic decisions — on a subject, e.g. legal, finance, or what is my particular interest: IT.

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