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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

More on reframing entropy in business

January 17, 2013 by Tom Graves

My previous post on ‘Reframing entropy in business‘ kinda triggered off a veritable storm of correspondence, both in the comments and offline – hence seems it’s worth summarising and revisiting those themes here. Perhaps the first point is that yes,…

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Categories Complexity / Structure, counter-entropy, enterprise, Enterprise Architecture, entropy, SCAN Tags Life, paradigm

Reframing entropy in business

January 4, 2013 by Tom Graves

What is entropy? What – if anything – is its relevance to business? And how does chaos come into the picture? The physics definition of entropy is straightforward enough: it’s a corollary of the second law of thermodynamics, the way in which energy flows…

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Categories Complexity / Structure, counter-entropy, enterprise, Enterprise Architecture, entropy, SCAN Tags Life, paradigm

Technology imitates Life far more than Life imitates Technology

October 1, 2010 by Amitabh Apte

Oscar Wilde the great Irish poet, writer and thinker wrote in his 1889 essay The Decay of Lying that “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life”. Now why would a CTO start his new blog entry with this quote? The reason is simple. What I experie…

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