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“We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice”. John Berger. Ways of Seeing. 1972. https://www.ways-of-seeing.com/ I wanted to connect with my theme: “I want to …. build a bridge between the time you could see, hear and touch the innards of technology, to the time now when it feels…

Here is a Christmas Article, or Hanneke, Solstice, Yule, Holidays choose your cultural reference point – but the celebration at the darkest part of the year in the northern hemisphere, looking ahead to light and new beginnings and celebrating what we have in friendships, family and home (and thinking of those lacking in these areas).  …

There is no such thing as a sphere. The equation for a sphere is: (x – a)² + (y – b)² + (z – c)² = r², where (a, b, c) represents the center of the sphere, r represents the radius, and x, y, and z are the coordinates of the surface of the sphere.  …

What is the future for AI? I invite you to take a broad view so that you can see further, and to listen quietly for the clues that are all around us. What of this broad view? I recommend the new book from Barry Smith ( https://www.routledge.com/Why-Machines-Will-Never-Rule-the-World-Artificial-Intelligence-without/Landgrebe-Smith/p/book/9781032309934), for many reasons, but in this case as a…

JabeOnAI, A Manifesto: How to thrive in an age of ubiquitous AI. Over the last 30 years the most influential trend in cognitive science – arguably has been the rise of 4E cognition as a theoretical under-pinning (at a later date I will explain the Lorenz attractor intertwined with the cartoon Artificial Neural Network in…

One of the problems you face when engineering AI systems is determining what information is relevant for the task in hand. Be your system an Artificial Neural Network (what most folks simply call Machine Learning these days) or a logic-based AI system such as a Knowledge Graph. In the Neural Network the challenge is to…

How can our kids survive in this world we now see as saturated with ubiquitous AI? We are under assault from a bunch of evil magicians, and I am not talking about the world of Harry Potter;  I see them as practitioners of Surveillance Information Technology Hegemony, see what I did there? I call them S.I.T.H.…

A framework for Understanding Ourselves and Artificial Intelligence. Or as I say later, understanding ourselves, understanding how to engineer useful AI systems; and to get a view on how we can best live in a world with these AI systems ubiquitously around us. Some personal context here I want to share a perspective – that when…

AI is not Hallucinating. There has been a great deal of talk about AI systems hallucinating. It is part of an anthropomorphism narrative that obscures and distorts what could be a valuable debate about opportunities for all of us to do good things in the world with advances in technology.  My personal fear is that…