“AI” as shorthand for turning off our brains. (This is not an anti-AI post; it’s a discussion of how we think about AI.)

Before going on, let me emphasize that, yes, modern AI is absolutely amazing—self-driving cars, machines that can play ping-pong, chessbots, computer programs that write sonnets, the whole deal! Call it machine intelligence or whatever, it’s amazing. What I’m getting at … Continue reading → …