Pontus Wärnestål 🇸🇪 @drpontus.bsky.social · 30/10/2025I show this image in all my talks. AI is not the same as GPT-based LLMs. The pendulum will swing again, and we'll soon re-animate another post-LLM AI subfield. So what's next? What's your guess? Bayesian inference will make a comeback? Neuro-symbolic AI will be the new black? 020
Pontus Wärnestål 🇸🇪 @drpontus.bsky.social · 28/11/2024In 1953, Roald Dahl published "The Great Automatic Grammatizator" about an electrical engineer who wanted to be a writer and built a machine that modeled the English language using mathematical notation. The machine quickly wrote best-selling novels – but it came with a price... 😬 (cont’d) 110
Pontus Wärnestål 🇸🇪 @drpontus.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Now and then (especially during hype heyday times) it's worth returning to @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social 's three laws of AI: rodneybrooks.com/rodney-brook...rodneybrooks.comRodney Brooks’ Three Laws of Artificial Intelligence – Rodney BrooksRobots, AI, and other stuff 010
Pontus Wärnestål 🇸🇪 @drpontus.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Pedagogical write-up on the water usage of LLMs. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...thetimes.com‘Thirsty’ ChatGPT uses four times more water than previously thoughtThe massive computer clusters powering artificial intelligence consume vast quantities to answer the world’s queries, but how is Big Tech redressing the balance? 051
Reposted by Pontus Wärnestål 🇸🇪Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/10/2024'Taking the time to do things right isn’t anti-innovation – it is what is required to get deep-rooted change in social systems.' My piece on AI and public services in this week's @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...newstatesman.comTony Blair is wrong – AI will not magically solve our public servicesToo many people might be left out of its revolution. 34440133
Pontus Wärnestål 🇸🇪 @drpontus.bsky.social · 16/11/2024🍂 I love the autumn. It's my favorite season, and I thrive in it. So, for my Saturday coding project this morning I decided to create a "memento mori" app, that tells you how many autumns you have left... (Inspired by John Maeda) Try it, and then go out enjoy the autumn leaves. warnestal.com/life/warnestal.comAutumn Leaves Life Calculator 020