by Ross Dawson | Jan 28, 2025 | Frameworks
A map of definitions of intelligence, human and machine. Click on the image for the full size pdf. The advent of next-generation “Artificial Intelligence” demands clarity on what we mean by “intelligence”, human or other. Here we map a variety of definitions...
by Ross Dawson | Jan 4, 2024 | Insights
One of the most powerful ways to improve our thinking is to bring in different and diverse perspectives. Ideally we can get that input from a range of people with varying demographic, experiential, and cognitive viewpoints. However that is not always possible. While...
by Ross Dawson | Dec 3, 2023 | Insights
I find it incredible that well into the 2020s the news filtering services available are really not particularly good. Generative AI is very promising in helping us with information scanning and filtering, especially in tailoring our feeds to precisely what we want and...
by Ross Dawson | Feb 1, 2023 | Insights
Anna Lembke is a Professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and the author of Dopamine Nation. This book explores “new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain.” The video below is an enlightening...
by Ross Dawson | Jan 23, 2023 | Insights
Through our lives we build mental models of the world that we apply in all our interactions and decisions. There are three major problems with this: No mental models are right, some are just more useful than others. This means that however good our mental models are,...
