GENERATIVE AI AND FOUNDATION MODELS
On a word everyone uses and no one can define For the past couple of years, whenever I give a talk about AI, someone in the audience inevitably asks about AGI, Artificial General Intelligence, and every time I feel the same discomfort. I have spent an hour or more speaking carefully about systems I understand,…
TALENT ACQUISITION AND RECRUITING
What the people of New Jersey knew about Bell Labs that some of us had to learn from the inside. Why am I writing this? I am aware of the trap. I look back at the place where I was a long time ago and remember a golden age that, examined closely, turns out to…
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FILM AND CINEMA
Why we expand information to compress it later. Many years ago I read a book called Hitchcock on Hitchcock, and one small passage in it has stayed with me longer than almost anything else I have read about films, which is one of my passions. Surprisingly, I have come to think that the ideas expressed […]
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING
On teaching the history of the field not as a chronology of methods but as a record of the bets we made, and lost. In January of 2023 I was in Doha, at the IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, sitting on a panel with several other people who had been in the field long enough […]
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH METHODS
Is working on machines built by others AI research? It can be. Usually it is not… A few weeks ago I was at one of the many AI gatherings that seem to happen in New York on any given evening now. The discussion was lively and well informed: the current state of the models, the […]