AI vs Math vs P vs NP

Now that the robots have started attacking the Clay Mathematics millenium problems it's interesting when they'll get to P vs NP - you might ask, when they'll take this interest in mathematics right home to their own domain and start to seriously...

The worst people with the best AI

So one of the biggest AI stories of the year is clearly the first very well documented IT crime, carried out by OpenAI researchers, instrumented through some AI agents they were testing. Please note the careful framing here. The car that you...

The end of AAAI

Amazon is ending Amazon Mechanical Turk which seems like a branding mistake of the same order as Google shutting down Google Reader and getting rid of the "I'm feeling lucky" button - but was probably obvious, given the state of AI. Amazon...

Even the APIs are below the API

When Github ended it's life as an independent company and became just a product in Microsoft's AI business last fall it all seemed a bit premature - Github an AI product? Why cannibalise the single most important source code platform on the...

Is software still a career?

A few months back I wrote a comment on LinkedIn to a young person who was giving up on learning to be a software professional - I suggested that it was to soon to give up on software - and that AI only made software more relevant, in that the reach is …

The unreasonable effectiveness of stochastic parrots

The year is 2040 and the ARC Prize make the following exciting announcement: "We are pleased to announce ARC-AGI 16, the next evolution of the ARC Prize. Current frontier models score 1.2% on this benchmark where humans easily score 100%"....

Coding is over. But the specs still need to be written

Last week I had the privilege to join Henrik Føhns in a conversation (in Danish) about software agents in general, Open Claw, but also more specifically coding agents. There's no question in my mind that the time when we write code in programming...

Some bad takes from the internet

It's all about risks The maker of Keras argues that nothing has changed in SaaS Here's what's wrong in the argument - it's a contorted form of survivor bias. It's absolutely true that for any succesful SaaS concept, the original investment has...

Flashback to simpler times

Just found this old post on Wired from way back when I presented Imity to the world at Where 2.0 in San Jose. Imity was Bluetooth wardriving as social network. We built a social experience around each BTId conceiving of it as a 'location' (a...