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't make.
Category: Off Topic
Anything I cannot put in the other main categories
How Facebook uses more strict privacy rules to invade your privacy even more (and kill WhatsApp in the process)
New Terms of Service I received communication from WhatsApp. I need to agree with the updated Terms of Service and Privacy Statement. I use WhatsApp to communicate with the colleagues in my department (e.g. we use it in our fire…
Twenty years ago: deconstructing hype
Dutch national newspaper De Volkskrant launched a site to commemorate their initial steps on the internet, 20 years ago, on May 6, 1996. All in good fun, e.g. de site looks like a Windows 95 desktop. On it, they put…
Serious Request 2015
It's time to do something good. Every year, in the week before Christmas, the Dutch radio station 3FM sets up a 'glass house' somewhere in The Netherlands, three dj's are locked up in it for a week without food and…
US Visit January 2016
I'll be visiting the US (North Carolina, New York) from January 25 until January 28. That creates an opportunity to give an Enterprise Architecture talk or class in the days just before or after. If people are interested to set…
Two appearances: Gartner EA Summit (UK) and MBT Conference (NL)
Short update. For those who would like to discuss Enterprise Architecture with me in person: I will be presenting at the Gartner EA Summit London 2015 on May 20th 2015 in London UK and I will be giving the closing keynote (in…
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Je suis Charlie
I have been in doubt about doing this, not because of self-censorship, but because the subject of my blog is far, far removed from the battlegrounds of free speech, and this post is definitely off-topic for this blog. My apologies.…
R&A IT Strategy & Architecture 