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Welcome to my weekly letter, where I share a few noteworthy articles and my own commentary. Without further ado…
Weekly Read
- This Researcher Says AI Is Neither Artificial nor Intelligent (Wired) – the title of the book should probably be called ‘The Dark Side of the AI’ since it seems to be collecting examples skewing towards the negatives. For perspective, the same AI has also made so much great things – the first time Google Photo show us its capability to recognize people in our pictures, and even able to recognize the same person years younger and older; seeing machines able to sort through a basket full of items, which leads to the highly efficient facilities at logistics business such as Amazon’s warehouse. Oh, just skip the next article picked ;p
- It Began as an AI-Fueled Dungeon Game. It Got Much Darker (Wired) – Yeah… ever since Microsoft’s ‘Tay’ bot incident in 2016, there have been many similar incidents. So many that there’s now an AI wall of shame! It seems like we badly need some real governance on the use of AI to avoid more of these incidents that continue to fuel ‘The Dark Side of the AI’…
- BMW’s Virtual Factory Uses AI to Hone the Assembly Line (Wired) – let’s pivot and look at some positive use/news of AI here. The ultimate driving machine, soon to be made by machine intelligence too.
- To Make These Chips More Powerful, IBM Is Growing Them Taller (Wired) – and to fuel further advancement of AI tech, this type of chip making innovation is only getting ever critical. Our AI overlord can’t wait what’s serving after IBM’s 2nm Nanosheet tech…
- Meet the mystery woman who mastered IBM’s 5,400-character Chinese typewriter (Fast Company) – another impressive innovation from IBM decades ago, despite it resulting in a failed venture. As a Chinese speaker, I have a different level of appreciation of the inventor’s effort. I wonder if the effort of creating an input method is more similar to solving a puzzle or to re-creating another language itself…; and as someone who can type Chinese (bo-po-mo-fo), I can see how the woman in the story still remembers those keys-word translation after so many years. It eventually became something of a muscle memory.
Have a nice weekend!
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