Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience


What made generative AI possible? What are its capabilities and limitations? How will it shape our future?

It is the unexpected, the new game, that disrupts and changes. It is that point when you suddenly and terrifyingly realize that your opponent is playing a deep and subtle game of Go, while you have been contemplating your next checkers jump with the wild eyed naiveté of a nine year old neophyte. Careers are…