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Eyes that glaze over. Eyes like saucers. Eyes that narrow.

July 16, 2023 by Gerben Wierda

When (new) technology is concerned, I observe that there are three types of people involved. Those whose eyes ‘glaze over’. Those whose eyes become like saucers. Those whose eyes narrow. Who should be the advisor of the decision makers?

Categories AI, Background Knowledge, Management and Organisation Tags #eavoices

Where are GPT and friends going?

May 11, 2023 by Gerben Wierda

What can we estimate about where the Generative AI innovation is going? Three useful links to articles that give interesting observations and insights.

Categories AI, Background Knowledge Tags #eavoices

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

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

March 27, 2022 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 #eavoices, Archimate, Background Knowledge, log4j, log4shell, Using ArchiMate, Vulnerability Scanning Tags #eavoices

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.

Categories #eavoices, All Posts, Background Knowledge, QM Computing Tags #eavoices

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

August 21, 2021 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 #eavoices, AI, Background Knowledge Tags #eavoices

Chatbots: een plaag voor de mensheid

September 9, 2020 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 #eavoices, AI, Background Knowledge Tags #eavoices

Chatbots: a scourge of humankind

September 9, 2020 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 #eavoices, AI, Background Knowledge Tags #eavoices

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

March 13, 2019 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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