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Friday, October 11, 2024
Companies should first focus on "Small AI"
They should focus on simple AI command lines that are trained on a very limited command set, simply to improve the GUI on applications.
For example, a command line on Excel, that lets you describe what you want done to your spreadsheet, "like create a new column that is equal to 5 * col1 + 3 * col2, if col3 is true".
So you don't have to memorize (or google to find out) menus, and copying formulas into each row.
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Nobel Prize in Physics...for AI?
Today, they awarded the Physics Nobel prize to the computer scientists who laid the foundation for AI.
There is no Nobel Prize for mathematics or computer science but (perhaps for timeliness) the Nobel committee decided to give a prize to the pioneers of neural networks (which underlie artificial intelligence).
They "stretched" the definition of physics and shoe-horned them in.
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Friday, October 4, 2024
Can't Sue Uber: Software Terms and Conditions
I was reading today about a couple who were injured after their Uber driver went through a red light.
A NJ appellate court agreed with Uber that they can't sue the company because their daughter once ordered a pizza through Uber eats, and had clicked away any future trial rights while going through the app.
So, now they can only go through private arbitration.
Do you think this is fair, or sneaky?
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Thursday, October 3, 2024
East Coast Longshoremen Strike
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Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Ozempic, Packaged Foods, and Business Strategy "Judo"
Lesson for business leaders: how can you turn threats and weaknesses into opportunities?
Friday, August 23, 2024
Gas Cars --> Electric
My response:
Yes, but that's the way it realistically has to be done, in steps.
1. Switching a car to electric (even if, for now, the source is coal) is a partial win, one step in the right direction. Now, that car is no longer dependent on gas or diesel.
2. As cars get switched over to electricity, the electrical demand will skyrocket. So, you need, in the interim, combinations of power plants (some more green than others) to prevent outages.
3. At the next phase, you can systematically work on replacing the worst sources with better sources. As you do that, as long as you keep supply constant, electric car owners don't have to do anything, because the source of power is abstracted away from them.
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