SwiftKey is an AI-powered software keyboard for mobile. So yeah, better you don’t google it.

If you were a math nerd, I could give some very convincing reasons why general AI isn’t a thing, but let’s just settle with this: we don’t have a complete model of human cognition, so there’s no way we can program one. We don’t even know whether human cognition is computable, and it’s probably not.

You really don’t need to understand AI. It’s just advanced pattern matching with some neat algorithms and optimizations. Humans have pursued AI since before the computer existed, but we kinda gave up in the late 70s and settled on “expert systems” because we realized true, general AI is a fantasy.

It’s not even difficult to figure out, either - genAI over-promises and under-delivers, and it always will as long as the promise is replacing human beings. There will never be an AI that can do that, and we’ve known it for decades. That’s why it turned into a niche technology in the 80s.

I keep telling people that genAI will never be profitable, but I keep getting the “you just don’t like AI” or “you just don’t understand business” replies.

I’ve been in this field for nearly 20 years. I know what I’m talking about. There isn’t enough compute in the world to make genAI profitable.

There’s the presumption, and then there’s that level of literal holier-than-thou judgment in the “Praise ‘Jetway Jesus’” part that instantly sets me off.

Or perhaps like my husband, who has such severe emotional disturbances before that he’s had to be wheeled around because he was not alert and oriented enough to walk? I really don’t know what the definition for “able-bodied” is even supposed to be within the context of that very accusatory headline.

“You’re not really a …”

Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.

The more you debate them, the more of your audience's attention you give to them. In debates, emotion always wins. To turn someone anti-immigration, you just need to play into their fears of losing their job. To convince them of the opposite, you need to basically give a 2h lecture on economics. 2/3

I built a new computer at the beginning of the year to get ahead of tariffs and apparently this was a brilliant decision not so much because of the tariffs but because I got ahead of the massive RAM price spike

“I guess they used AI or something.”

Yeah, it certainly couldn’t be that the man with a well-known case of verbal diarrhea managed to accidentally say something he shouldn’t have. No, certainly not. Let’s blame it on that thing he’s gung-ho in support of instead. 🙄

My trust is shattered!