Jun 17, 2025 | AI, business, law, news, Politics
This is a story about lawyers and moronicans, laziness and greed, and why blame for bad AI results should frequently rest with people, not technology. You should be skeptical about reports of flaws and problems with AI – but also skeptical about the results you...
Jun 3, 2025 | AI, augmented reality, Facebook, glasses, Google
Foreigners sure talk fast, don’t they? When you listen to someone speaking a foreign language, you’re sure they’re speaking very quickly, far faster than you speak in your more refined native language. It turns out they think exactly the same thing about the way you...
May 20, 2025 | AI, Internet
I’ve written about how AI is great and AI research will change the world and you should use it to plan your trips, while cheerleaders kick up their heels and wave their pom poms, rah rah sis boom bah. That’s part of the story. I don’t apologize a bit for being a...
May 6, 2025 | AI, Android, Apple, Chrome, Google, search
AI is taking over online searches. At the moment, that’s good news – the AI summaries are increasingly reliable and helpful. In the long term, they might be so good that paradoxically, they contribute to the enshittification of the internet. It’s a big,...
Mar 25, 2025 | AI, business, law
Breaking news: Artificial intelligence is going to reshape the legal industry again, for the first time. Way back in 2011, the New York Times looked at the advent of e-discovery software and declared in its headline, “Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper...
Mar 4, 2025 | AI, Azure, business, Microsoft, search
In the last article I talked about AI and searching for stuff in big companies. Employees will be able to use AI to get answers drawn from all the different places that information is stored – files, databases, email and calendars, Teams chats, all the rest. The...
