Mind & Machine
5 essays
What these systems are, what they are not, and the cost of getting the framing wrong.
Mind & Machine
AI vs MI, and Machine Empathy
Machine intelligence and artificial intelligence are not the same claim, and machine empathy is a third thing again — behaviour that functions as empathy without any of its interior.
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Cybernetics and the History of AI
Most of what feels new was argued out in the 1940s and 50s. Cybernetics lost the field to symbolic AI and is now, quietly, winning it back.
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Is Humanizing AI an Error?
Human framing makes these systems usable and simultaneously makes them impossible to reason about accurately. It is not obvious the trade is worth it.
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Neurodiversity 2.0: Digital vs Biological Neural Nets
Digital and biological networks fail in different directions. Treating that as a defect to be corrected, rather than a difference to be designed around, wastes both.
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The Mental Health of AI
Systems degrade under load, drift under pressure, and behave erratically in ways operators describe in psychological language because no better vocabulary exists. The vocabulary may be wrong; the phenomenon is not.
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