Tag Archives: artificial intelligence
A Few Thoughts about Artificial Intelligence
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 12th September 2023AI is on the lips of just about everyone, including those who don’t know what the two letters stand for. Many seem to share the concern of the philosopher Nick Bostrom that we may create AI systems that will be so powerful and so much smarter than we are that they will take over the…
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Another Failure of AI – Man Beats Best Computer Go Program
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 20th February 2023This is a flow up to the article I wrote here five days ago in which I described the failure of Open AI’s ChatGPT to handle medical material. Obviously, the AI program has not had much exposure to medicine accounting for its poor performance in that field. Specialized AI programs have done as well or…
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The Perils of AI
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 15th February 2023I’ve recently read several articles describing the incredible output of openai. Samples of its work were presented as equivalent to the columns of newswriters or the advice emails by writers with large numbers of readers. So I decided to try it out. I asked for the biographies of a number of well known and important…
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Artificial Intelligence is Better Than No Intelligence at All
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 28th June 2022The press has covered the release by a Google engineer that the company has an AI that is sentient with a mix of fear, fascination, and foreboding. For the purposes of this article I will assume that everything Blake Lemoine (the Google engineer) has said about LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is true. If…
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Bring Back The Abacus
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 5th July 2018The complete ingestion of the modern world by the computer has putatively made life easier and allegedly added to the variety and plenty of life’s pleasant experiences. Except when it hasn’t. Yesterday Walgreens informed me that I had a prescription ready for pickup. To make life easier for me they gave me a link to…
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Robot Reaches Milestone, Passes Medical Licensing Exam
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 4th December 2017The following is from Becker’s Hospital Review – November 21, 201. It was bound to happen. Draw your own conclusions. An artificial intelligence-powered robot in China took the country’s medical licensing examinations and passed, becoming the first robot to do so, Futurism reports. The robot, Xiaoyi, not only passed the tests, but it did so with flying colors —…
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