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1 month, 20 days ago

Cicero and chatGPT — signs of AI progress?

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
10 months, 5 days ago

Scanning for vulnerabilities — using an #ArchiMate diagram about scanning for log4j

by Gerben Wierda

A short story about the log4shell vulnerability in log4j that hit the computing world last December with an explanation of the problem and why scanning for it was so hard. With an ArchiMate diagram to illustrate.

Categories Archimate, Background Knowledge, log4j, log4shell, Using ArchiMate, Vulnerability Scanning Tags #eavoices
1 year, 5 months ago

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

by Gerben Wierda

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

Categories All Posts, Background Knowledge, QM Computing Tags #eavoices
1 year, 5 months ago

Review of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence & A conversation with Erik Larson

by Gerben Wierda

Last April, the book The Myth of Artificial Intelligence was published by Harvard University Press. The author is Erik J. Larson, a computer scientist and tech entrepreneur who is active in the field, especially in natural language processing. After re…

Categories AI, Background Knowledge Tags #eavoices
2 years, 4 months ago

Chatbots: een plaag voor de mensheid

by Gerben Wierda

Chatbots. Ze zijn overal tegenwoordig. En ze zijn vaak frustrerend slecht, niet meer dan een te nemen horde op weg naar een mens. Waarom zijn ze zo slecht? Misschien omdat de kern techniek van 30 jaar geleden is?

Categories AI, Background Knowledge Tags #eavoices
2 years, 4 months ago

Chatbots: a scourge of humankind

by Gerben Wierda

Chatbots. They’re everywhere these days. They’re also frustratingly poor, often just a hurdle to take to get to a human agent. Why are they so poor? Maybe because the core is technology from 30 years ago?

Categories AI, Background Knowledge Tags #eavoices
3 years, 10 months ago

To be and not to be — is that the answer?

by Gerben Wierda

If you believe much of the reporting done on quantum computing, it is around the corner. We look at how quantum computing works and how realistic it is that it will be available any time soon. With an small appendix on the continuum hypothesis.

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