Bill Pearse

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• May you let me be forgotten

  By Bill Pearse on May 15, 2023 • ( 2 )

  

  Finally lying down again. All these cherry blossoms like handfuls of confetti coming down. That and some birds tweeting and the neighborhood kids playing. In spring you forget everything bad it seems. Fall and winter give us plenty of time… Read More ›

• Circling the rings of nuance around planet AI

  By Bill Pearse on May 7, 2023 • ( 3 )

  Chatbots like ChatGPT can predict words with amazing precision. The danger lies in believing they’re capable of more. The first problem with … Circling the rings of nuance around planet AI

• Pictures of you

  By Bill Pearse on April 16, 2023 • ( 11 )

  

  In the den on the bookshelf he keeps a framed set of photos of himself. Starting at 10 o’clock and moving clockwise, he is a grade school student in a striped red turtleneck, the late 1970s. The picture has the… Read More ›

• April

  By Bill Pearse on April 9, 2023 • ( 6 )

  

  The album is my link to him, it came out the year he died. It’s just called April and it was released on April 1, 2008. I remember buying the CD, standing outside the record store waiting for the bus…. Read More ›

• Warnings from Shakespeare on AI

  By Bill Pearse on March 24, 2023 • ( 2 )

  

  In case you missed it, last week I launched a new website called Words Matter. I’ll be posting essays about technology, potential impacts on society, with links to more information. This week’s piece reflects on the impact of AI through… Read More ›

• Trump indictment looms as the world looks on

  By Bill Pearse on March 21, 2023 • ( 23 )

  

  If you really think about it, it’s funny we use the phrase to “pay attention.” If attention is ours, why do we have to pay for it? Usually you buy something you don’t have. It seems counterintuitive since others literally… Read More ›

• The spring of our discontent

  By Bill Pearse on March 19, 2023 • ( 26 )

  

  It’s spring again, so I bought a book called Global Catastrophic Risks. It’s not the right book for the season but I’m compelled to read it because it cost so much. It’s thick and scientific with a Bruegel painting on… Read More ›

• ‘A’ stands for ambiguous in AI

  By Bill Pearse on March 17, 2023 • ( 6 )

  ‘A’ stands for ambiguous in AI Check out my new WordPress site Words Matter for essays about today’s emerging technologies and how AI will impact all of us. Thanks to my good friends here who helped me create this first… Read More ›

• No more the mystery

  By Bill Pearse on March 11, 2023 • ( 60 )

  

  Automating music discovery through algorithms has forever changed the way we learn about and consume new music. But have we lost something precious along the way? I moved to Seattle in the summer of ’96 and left just after a… Read More ›

• Letting go of Jon Cook

  By Bill Pearse on March 9, 2023 • ( 19 )

  

  In 1996 I didn’t know what to do there, I just knew I had to be on the internet. There was a little internet cafe around the corner from my apartment on Broadway, Seattle’s hip, gay neighborhood I’d just moved… Read More ›

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