Hitchcock, Shannon, and AI
Alfred Hitchcock's filmmaking process, as recalled from the book 'Hitchcock on Hitchcock', illustrates a principle of information expansion and compression that applies to AI development. The director…
Alfred Hitchcock's filmmaking process, as recalled from the book 'Hitchcock on Hitchcock', illustrates a principle of information expansion and compression that applies to AI development. The director…
The history of AI should be taught as a technical subject that records the bets the field has made and lost, argues a veteran researcher who has seen his own expertise become obsolete four times. Spea…
A senior AI researcher argues that most work done on large language models today, including prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and agent orchestration, is engineering rather than genuine AI research, be…
AI democratization, while beneficial, creates a disconnect between deep understanding and widespread use, mirroring the pattern seen in past technologies like electricity and speech recognition. The a…
Research, research and development (R&D), and product engineering are fundamentally different jobs with distinct goals, success criteria, and personnel, not simply the same work performed at different…