[Forbes] What It Means To Be 'AI-Ready'
Why so many organizations are searching for it and how to take meaningful steps toward achieving it
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Old-School Tech Can Often Beat the Buzz
While buzzwords promise the future, old-school tech quietly builds it
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David William Silva
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Comments on the Illusion of Thinking
Apple’s latest paper challenges the promise of reasoning models and reveals cracks in how we think about AI "thinking"
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What AI Can’t Replace (According to Humans)
From poetics to plumbing, what people believe AI can never replace reveals more about us than about the machines
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May 2025

The Illusion of Adaptation
When tweaking old habits in the age of AI leads straight to obsolescence
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The Building Blocks of AI Reasoning
Can AI reason? And how does that work?
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Describing AI in Two Words
Artificial intelligence and the spectrum of human perceptions
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Detecting AI-Generated Texts
Notes on an experiment for identifying characteristics of human vs. machine writing
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Lost in the Middle: The Context Crisis of LLMs
Bigger context windows don’t always mean better memory
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Intellectual Property in the AI Era
How to create and protect value in a world of shared models and open code
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The Power of Small Language Models
What if with SLMs, less could actually be more in AI?
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You Have Been Doing AI All Along
Even everyday tasks play an important role in the AI magic
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