Artificial General Intelligence is Nigh! Rejoice! Be very afraid!

Should we be hopeful or scared about imminent machines that are as intelligent or more than humans? Surprisingly, this debate is even older than computers, and from the mathematician Ada Lovelace comes an interesting observation that is as valid now as it was when she made it in 1842.

GPT and Friends bamboozle us big time

After watching my talk that explains GPT in a non-technical way, someone asked GPT to write critically about its own lack of understanding. The result is illustrative, and useful. "Seeing is believing", true, but "believing is seeing" as well.

The hidden meaning of the errors of ChatGPT (and friends)

We should stop labelling the wrong results of ChatGPT and friends (the 'hallucinations') as 'errors'. Even Sam Altman — CEO of OpenAI — agrees, they are more 'features' than 'bugs' he has said. But why is that? And why should we not call them errors?