Nathaniel Borenstein

If *I* were a total idiot, I would probably choose risky sex over cigarettes. www.businessinsider.com/ai-researche...

What are we talking about? The Terminological Muddle Undermining Discussions of AI drmime.substack.com/p/understand...

This technology can really help the color blind, I believe. But I'm done being an entrepreneur. If you know any color blind people who might be interested, please pass this on. (I'm told Mr. Gates and Mr. Zuckerberg are color blind.) drmime.substack.com/publish/post...

Now that the quick takes have passed, I want to raise two important topics Pope Leo omitted from his wonderful encyclical about AI, Magnifica Humanitas. From my new substack! drmime.substack.com/p/ai-where-p...

I'm raising money for the Electronic Frontier Foundation around my book release! Donate to EFF and get a signed "Spirit of a Cyborg" bookplate from me!

Finally coming next month, and now available with a discount for pre-order!

Larry Ellison preaches the scary gospel of the surveillance state. I don't spread rumors, but I will say that I have *heard* more unsubstantiated horrible rumors about Larry Ellison than anyone else in the tech industry. Where there's both smoke and fascism, something is probably burning.

As if Magnifica Humanitas didn't break enough ground talking about AI, it also includes the Vatican's clearest-ever repudiation of the "just war" theory!

There is a lot of good stuff in Magnifica Humanitas. I'm still letting it sink in.

I think this is one of the most important things happening right now in AI. Truly open AI -- not the company with the oxymoronic name, but AI with open source and transparent training -- is the only kind I can ever imagine really trusting.

After endless iterations, my book has a title, subtitle, and cover design. Coming this summer from iPub Cloud International!

Self-assessment is something humans aren't good at either. If we could make AI's better than humans at assessing their own level of certainty, that might be the turning point after which they'd quickly exceed humans at nearly everything else.

I've been nsb online for most of the last 50 years. Now Mastadon believes I am the Nike Shoe Bot. For the record, I am not.

A watershed moment for AI: Turing Award winner Donald Knuth just had AI solve one of his hardest problems. Knuth's (not peer reviewed) paper actually starts with the words, "Shock! Shock!" If the Singularity is real (I doubt it) it must surely be coming soon.

These are not the droids you're looking for.

In the early 1980's, a defense contractor named Advanced Information and Decision Systems had to change its name, having previously been branded as AIDS. I bear no ill will to Elon University, but I kind of hope they suffer a similar fate.

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Future human space travellers may have tardigrade DNA! Also cancer patients.

I have been worrying about the social impact of AI for over 50 years. This may be the most dystopian true AI story I have ever read.

Bobby Jr. shares his secret to getting brain worm.

Marx Brothers! Popeye! Buck Rogers! Faulkner! Ain't Misbehavin'! These and much more are about to become the common property of all humanity!

A decade in the making, I am unveiling a new technology for the 660 million people in the world with color vision deficiency. Here is the link to try the free web player: blue.colorphi.net Here is the link to learn more: colorphi.com Please share & feel free to contact me for more details.

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