It Is Time To Have A Group Chat About AI

January 23, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The first rule of any technology is that is can be used for good or evil, but generally it is used for something vaguely in between. The second rule, rarely used, is that some technologies need to be tightly controlled because of the global-scale damage they can cause. Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion come immediately to mind. And so does the special branch of machine learning called deep learning, which most people call AI training these days.

I can’t remember precisely when I first started writing about AI training and the neural networks and frameworks underneath them, but I wrote …