The OpenAI saga surpasses fiction Oh boy, have we been taken back and forth by the astounding series of events that started with Sam Altman's firing last week. We were all shocked by the announcement by the OpenAI board firing Sam Altman from the CEO position, mainly because this kind…

LLaMa is a key piece — Though the first part of the title speaks for itself, the second is less obvious. I think (and justify in the following) that the unorthodox path of Meta in AI is at least interesting and is potentially a success. The “Meta” name is associated with the “Metaverse,” which has proven…

From silliest to reasonable Oh boy, have we got news about AI over the months… And it hasn’t been a year since the launch of ChatGPT last November. Busy news outlets have been pouring headlines about AI to the point that something called “AI fatigue” is now a thing. But…

It didn’t turn out as expected. — Remember the Semantic Web? Probably not. It was all the rage about two decades ago. But nowadays, mentions of it are rare. After starting with a bold vision for a new Web (see below), the Semantic Web gradually lost steam and faded into the background little by little. Still, there…

It’s not the technology — In this post, I will give you two examples of a problem with cutting-edge technology, and then you tell me what they have in common. Tesla’s Full-Self-Driving As you probably know, Tesla’s “Full-Self-Driving” (FSD) is not even true self-driving (level 3 of autonomy from The Society of Automotive Engineers, SAE), even less…

Buzz led to confusion — Is Artificial Intelligence the same as Machine Learning? Do Siri and ChatGPT use similar technology? These and other questions arrive to me either from my students or Quora, where I answer many questions. So I decided to jot down a straightforward clarification of how AI technologies interrelate with each other…

How to tell the real from the illusion? Many people see the current AI boom as yet another hyped fad, as they see how just a few years after AI was an obscure topic to the general public, now it’s all the rage, and news outlets keep feeding notes at…

How much tweaking is too much? During Apple’s recent announcement of new products and software versions, an apparently tiny detail nonetheless got my attention. There was about the picture processing software: Craig Federighi –the head of software at Apple– presented a seemingly ordinary photo of a kid sitting on a…

Not enough AI yet — At this point, it’s hard not to be aware of the Apple Vision Pro, a new-of-its-kind AR and VR device announced by Apple at its developers’ conference. This post is not to discuss: Whether Apple is still an innovative company or not. Whether “spatial computing” is a thing (which it…