AI Doesn’t Have a Learning Problem.

AI Doesn’t Have a Learning Problem.

It Has a Discipline Problem. An article made the rounds recently asking why the human brain still outlearns AI. It’s a fair question with a nine-minute answer, and the answer walks through all the usual rooms. Humans chunk knowledge into reusable blocks. Humans learn from errors because errors sting. Humans forget strategically, generalize from tiny…

The AI Experts Built the Bed. The Public Has to Sleep on.

The AI Experts Built the Bed. The Public Has to Sleep on.

A study crossed the wire this week that puts a number on something most people feel and can’t prove. Researchers at RWTH Aachen University in Germany surveyed 1,110 ordinary citizens and 119 AI experts. Same questions. Seventy-one scenarios about where automation takes us in the next ten years. Cars that drive themselves. Software that tutors…

AI companies lobbied Washington and Got Leashed

AI companies lobbied Washington and Got Leashed

Here’s a story about being careful what you wish for. For over a year, the biggest AI companies in America lobbied Washington for one thing. A single federal standard. One set of rules instead of fifty state laws, each pulling a different direction. This week, the news broke that they’re getting it. The federal government…

40% of Organizations Say They Can’t Trust AI

40% of Organizations Say They Can’t Trust AI

Two numbers came across my desk this week, and they belong in the same sentence. Forty percent of organizations say they can’t trust AI because they can’t see how it works. Only seventeen percent are doing anything to fix it. Those numbers come from McKinsey, reported in the enterprise press two weeks ago. Not from…