by Bruce Baker | Nov 3, 2020 | Insights
“The Social Dilemma” opens with powerful quotes from powerful people in social media business and technology. They laud the technology as a “force for good.” A visionary tech entrepreneur sums up excitement and idealism that inspired so many like him in the tech...
by Bruce Baker | Sep 1, 2019 | Insights
Good question. On the surface, it seems simple enough. Assign any standard you like as a demonstration of intelligence, and then ask whether you could (theoretically) set up an AI to perform it. Sure, it seems common sense that given sufficiently advanced technology...
by Bruce Baker | Aug 8, 2019 | Insights
Coders play a glorified role in our society. They are makers-of-worlds. To see your code spring to life is a wonderful, exhilarating experience. Coders know what this feels like. This creative power inspires altruism in the hacker ethic. It also contributes to...
by Bruce Baker | Jul 19, 2019 | Insights
“I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky.” — Richard Brautigan In his 1967 poem, “All Watched Over By Machines of Loving...
by Bruce Baker | Jul 16, 2019 | Insights
“It’s never going to go to zero.” So says Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer, in a New York Times interview. “It” is the on-going stream of hate, malicious messaging and bad behavior that Facebook’s platform promulgates. Schroepfer is simply being...
