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It’s not so much that “it won’t happen here”; it might, in the sense that it might be that in…
Is that so? What if AI writes the great American novel? We wouldn’t read it because it was written by…
Terence Tao just posted a guest essay to his blog by two philosophers on the recent Open AI Navier-Stokes result…
The comments on this thread of the “it won’t happen here” variety strike me as naive. There is a tendency…
The statement makes a clear and compelling point about the risks that the thoughtless use of AI to churn out…
As a mathematician I have all my skin in this game. One description of mathematics is as a continuing conversation…
It’s not just training data: it’s the existence of very formal ways of checking for correctness. Those exist in CS…
Here is an hypothesis, hopefully mistaken.
UPDATE (Dec 30): The U.S. and Saddam, a useful overview here. (JAN 2: But on the CIA and Saddam in the early 1960s, see also this.)
ANOTHER: Also timely.
AND ONE MORE: Thoughts on the execution.
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