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Artificial intelligence needs better words for a specific kind of thinking: the belief that intelligence will arrive without engineering it. That scale solves architecture. That prediction equals cognition. That complexity wrapped around guessing machines produces reasoning. This phenomenon has a name now. Several, actually. Fanboi (n.) IPA: /fɑ̃.bwa/ Pronunciation: fahn-BWAH Plural: fanbois /fɑ̃.bwa/ An individual…
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For reasons I can’t fully explain, I spend a bit of my precious time on earth reading posts and articles about Healthcare AI on LinkedIn. Too many of these posts and articles claim that AI is going to transform healthcare (or some variation thereof). I hereby request the entire LinkedIn Healthcare AI Brain Trust to…
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My LinkedIn feed is awash in slop. Not AI slop – the stuff large language models spew out copiously. Human slop. About AI. The stuff that Thought Leaders spew out about AI no less copiously than their LLM counterparts. I’m working on a slop rating system. I give an LLM the LinkedIn article and the…
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In recent years, “agentic” has become a hot buzzword to describe certain classes of LLM-based systems. It has also become the focus of a huge amount of hype and research. Like so many hype words, agentic is badly abused. The abuse has consequences: One of the reasons (there are others) that LLM-based “agentic” systems are…
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In 1969, psychologists Carolyn Kent Rovee and David T. Rovee tied a ribbon from a 10-week-old infant’s ankle to a mobile so that each kick made it move. Within minutes, the babies learned the connection — kicking three times more often than controls. The study, “Conjugate reinforcement of infant exploratory behavior,” was one of the…
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U.S. healthcare is in the midst of a massive shift – moving complex, long-term care out of expensive institutions and into the home. Successfully shifting care into the home depends almost entirely on one group: informal caregivers – family and friends doing the work of care. But the informal caregiver system is fragile. When it…
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McKinsey’s “The AI-centric iImperative” is a 15-page guide to rearranging deck chairs – a polished manual for operationalizing LLM wrappers at enterprise scale and calling it transformation. Dressed up in “agentic AI” hype, it mostly rebrands automation: monetizing chatbots (consumption pricing!), deploying AI sales drones, automating support tickets (IVR 2.0!), and launching glorified app stores…
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In another post, I talked about how Ren (an AI Partner in Care that supports caregivers at scale) is a “Hybrid AI”. That is, Ren synthesizes a broad range of AI technologies and traditions to deliver caregiver support. In this post, I’m going to talk a little bit about the Knowledge Representation tradition and how…
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In my Hybrid AI post, I provided an overview of what Hybrid AI means (to me, at least). And I briefly discussed the Neuro-Symbolic (NS) synthesis – and how it acts as the “interfacing” part of the Ren system. My focus on Hybrid AI and Neuro-Symbolic AI isn’t unique – both are gaining significant traction…
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In other posts, I talked about healthcare’s Big Bet on supporting caregivers and how the system I’m building (“Ren”) aims to support caregivers at scale. In this post, I want to describe the AI technologies I’m using and what I mean when I talk about Ren as a “Hybrid AI”. Hybrid AI Hybrid AI is…