A blog about the philosophy of technology
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A more powerful engine will not win the AI race
For the sake of argument, let’s say there really is an AI race. Countries and companies are perceived to be in this race to win and much fear revolves around falling behind in the AI race. Let’s dive deeper into this race analogy. To win a race you need an engine. For AI the engine…
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To the Moon – is AGI really inevitable?
Much current discussion revolves around when we will see Artificial General Intelligence and how that will affect us. The current edition of the Economist (July 26th 2025 edition) is dedicated to that topi. It reports how Investment centers around building ever bigger data centers to run ever bigger models on ever bigger amounts of data.…
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Virus, Fungus, Critter or Pet? – AI is not going to be human like anyway
Rather than speculate and debate intensely about Artificial General Intelligence or Superhuman Intelligence and whether or when it will take over the world, it may make sense to look more broadly at the different possible types of machine intelligence. If we apply artificial intelligence in a system responding to human input, such as doing a…
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Meditation #8 are we living in a simulation?
The idea that we are living in a computer simulation was popularized by the motion picture The Matrix in 1999. A more rigorous formulation was made by Philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2003 in his paper Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? and is known by the name the Simulation Hypothesis. It is not a…
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What if AI was a professional soccer player?
Reading headlines one will marvel at the abilities of generative AI, but looking at the comparatively limited usage of generative AI in the industry, which is pretty basic, one is left wondering. The key question is if AI is so capable why hasn’t it already taken over everywhere? To understand this, imagine you are the…
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Can I make a suggestion? Interrogate, Reflect, Choose
Is this situation familiar? you are working on an important project and somebody makes a suggestion that is so crazy that you want to say “Sure, you can do that. You can do a lot of things. You can roll up a wad of 100 dollar bills and put them up your ass and light…
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“Just moving data” -how to build the data foundation
When I first started in the IT industry I remember one of my first projects. The purpose was just to move data from one system to another and I remember wondering if that is all there was to it. I discussed this with my mentor who told me that this is what all IT is…
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Technology is not the problem in AI
After DeepSeek’s language model sent shockwaves through the tech world and the US government announced a $500 billion investment in AI partnership, while the EU Commission is panicing about how to catch up with the US and China’s technological lead, it is appropriate to stop and reflect on whether it is really the technology at…
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Creating valuable data is a force multiplier
It may come as no surprise that data is important for information technology and that information technology is fundamental to the operations of most organizations who consequently depend on data for their daily operations and need it to fuel new and innovative solutions. Unfortunately, it is often not managed with appropriate diligence resulting in everything…
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Desperately seeking value – The AI value gap
There is little doubt that AI has the potential to transform the world economy. This has been reiterated in reports from the EU, IMF and major consulting companies and weekly in headlines around the world. As Lars Tvede has pointed out recently the perception is that: “(..)this is the calm before the storm. According to…
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