Problems galore

To those that actually read this thing I find myself apologising again. The last week has been riddled with problems for the website.

For whatever reason the host decided that it would be a good laugh to have blog.morganbye.net try to redirect to morganbye.net/blog which would be fine if they’d told me in advance so I could have changed the blog settings.

Unfortunately they didn’t, so my blog was spread across the 2 addresses, meaning that none of the features worked and I couldn’t even log in to save my databases. Thank god for google cache and a bit of “outside-the-box” thinking. Hopefully, this should be the end of the problems. That said I might try and to migrate back to the old blog dot address due to personal taste. But you know, it may turn out to be more trouble than it’s worth.

Fingers crossed


This page previously appeared on morganbye.net[^1][^2]

[^1:] http://morganbye.net/2009/09/problems-galore) [^2:] http://morganbye.net/blog/?p=25

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I've built data pipelines across 3 continents at petabyte scales, for over 15 years. But the data doesn't matter if we don't solve the human problems first - an AI solution that nobody uses is worthless.

Are the robots going to kill us all?

Not any time soon. At least not in the way that you've got imagined thanks to the Terminator movies. Sure somebody with a DARPA grant is always going to strap a knife/gun/flamethrower on the side of a robot - but just like in Dr.Who - right now, that robot will struggle to even get out of the room, let alone up some stairs.

But AI is going to steal my job, right?

A year ago, the whole world was convinced that AI was going to steal their job. Now, the reality is that most people are thinking 'I wish this POC at work would go a bit faster to scan these PDFs'.

When am I going to get my self-driving car?

Humans are complicated. If we invented driving today - there's NO WAY IN HELL we'd let humans do it. They get distracted. They text their friends. They drink. They make mistakes. But the reality is, all of our streets, cities (and even legal systems) have been built around these limitations. It would be surprisingly easy to build self-driving cars if there were no humans on the road. But today no one wants to take liability. If a self-driving company kills someone, who's responsible? The manufacturer? The insurance company? The software developer?