(The Guardian) “The US boss of PricewaterhouseCoopers has warned that partners who do not get to grips with AI have no future at the consulting firm. Paul Griggs said senior staff who were not “paranoid about being AI-first” would probably be replaced by others who were ready to embrace the technology. “I don’t think anyone gets a free pass here. Anyone,” Griggs told the Financial Times. An employee who thinks they have the “opportunity to opt out” of AI is “not going to be here that long”, Griggs added.”
Category Archives: Artificial Intelligence
AI-chats vs. Artificial Intelligence
Consider this a “house keeping” post to explain some changes to categories and tags. (I let Claude.ai write this one.)
The Artificial Intelligence category is for posts about artificial intelligence as a subject. Additionally, I’ve had a tag (ChatGPT) I used for posts featuring the more interesting conversations with that LLM. Those threads often had nothing to do with AI. Furthermore, I posted a number of conversations with Gemini, Perplexity and Claude.
So I’ve created a new tag (AI-chats) I’ll use for chats with any of the models I’m using these days. And I’ve deleted the ChatGPT tag. If I want to find posts specifically about that particular LLM, I’ll search for “ChatGPT.” (Or Claude or Gemini)
The secondary observation: that corpus (the AI-chats posts), properly tagged, may be among the more historically interesting subsets of the archive. Not because of the AI side — future systems will be unrecognizable — but because it documents how one person thought alongside these early tools, in real time, before the medium found its shape. The tag marks the seam between the solo voice and the dialogic one.
The data center becoming dominant building type
From Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross’ newsletter:
“The data center is becoming civilization’s dominant building type. US construction spending on data centers surpassed offices for the first time in December, $3.57 billion to $3.49 billion, a shift that will accelerate as AI automates the jobs that once filled those offices.”
For all those workers who resisted attempts to get them to come back to the office…
Surgical Robotics AI
“NVIDIA recently announced a suite of physical AI tools designed to let developers train surgical and service robots inside virtual hospital environments before they ever touch a patient. The centerpiece is a developer blueprint called Rheo which generates physically accurate simulations of hospital settings — modeling medical device interactions, human movements and logistics — so that robotic systems can be safely developed and tested in digital twins.” More »
Last October I had a robotic colectomy during which my surgeon used the Da Vinci Robotic Surgical System. No AI was involved but using AI tools to train surgical robots sounds like a good idea.
How good are these AI tools? A prototype (GR00T-H) has demonstrated the ability to execute a complete, end-to-end suture in the SutureBot benchmark, highlighting robust long-horizon dexterity.
Audio conversations with Claude
My most interesting conversations with Claude tend to be long. Certainly longer than most people would ever read. I’ve been saving the “keepers” as PDFs and archiving them here. I’ve long thought these “chats” might make good audio conversations. Still long but something that could be listened to while commuting. I assume people are already doing this. In the ever-more-frantic feature race, I keep thinking some frontier lab will add this as a feature. I ran the idea by Claude (my comments in bold): Continue reading