Advice from AI: Stop using AI
I called out Claude the AI on its hallucination, and asked it how humans should deal with hallucinating AI’s. Claude’s ultimate advice was: stop using me.
Continue reading →A Beautiful Journey through Assisted Death
My mother, Dr Sarah Traister Moskovitz, died on 1 September 2024 through Medical Aid in Dying (MAID). It was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever witnessed. She was 97. This is the story of how she came to end her own life.
Continue reading →EdTech news clippings – new location
Are you looking for the latest developments in Education Techology – EdTech? In 2021, I started an EdTech news clipping page using Pinboard.in. I’ve changed my bookmarking technology to Raindrop.io, and am now also publishing these on Mastodon. Here’s how to find them: Raindrop.io direct: https://raindrop.io/davemosk/ed-tech-49190038/ Raindrop.io RSS feed: https://raindrop.io/collection/49190038/feed Mastodon: @[email protected] If you have…
Continue reading →AI performs better than expected
Skepticism mollified – for specific tasks If you’ve talked to me about AI recently, you’ll know that I’m a bit of a skeptic when it comes to AI being a panacea for the world’s problems. What between hallucinations about academic articles, many inherent biases, lack of training on obscure subjects, stuff that’s just plain wrong,…
Continue reading →The Song Remains
Last month, I helped launch a new web site: The Song Remains, a collection of Yiddish poetry with English translations by Polish-Jewish poets who were killed during the Nazi occupation. The poems come from the eponymous book, anthologised by Binem Heller and published in Warsaw in 1952. There are over 160 poems by 36 authors in total. We will be publishing one poem per week from the collection. You can subscribe (for free) to receive a poem per week in your inbox.
Continue reading →Even the simplest things can go wrong
Sometimes we jokingly ask, “how hard can it be?” Don’t be complacent: even the simplest things can go wrong. Early in my career as a software engineer, I worked on IBM System 360/370 mainframes programming customisations for the MVS operating system in assembler language. Assembler language is not recommended for the faint of heart –…
Continue reading →Who’s side are you on?
People keep asking me:
Who’s side are you on?
Are you good or are you evil?
Are you in or out?
One of us or one of them?
Are you my friend or my enemy?
Being Better Humans in the Age of AI
My talk at the Diplosphere 2023 conference in Wellington. Kia ora koutou, ko Dave Moskovitz ahau. I’m Dave Moskovitz, and I know many you in this room in a variety of contexts, either as an entrepreneur, an investor, a company director, a software developer, and other things too. But today, I am going to be…
Continue reading →Lessons from a month with my 94 year old parents
I recently spent a month living with my 94 year old parents, after being isolated from them for over two years due to the COVID pandemic. Here are some of the lessons I learned: Fitness Stay physically and mentally active, fit and flexible to the greatest possible extent Get outside frequently. At least every day,…
Continue reading →Fun, Spun, Under the Gun, Done – dealing with messy cap tables
A startup’s cap table, or capitalisation table, is an important artifact for investors to evaluate a candidate for investment. In essence, a cap table shows who has put money into the company over time, on what terms, and who owns what. A cap table tells a financial story about the history of the company, and…
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