Two men wait by a tree for someone called Godot, unsure when he's due and unable to say who he is. The AI industry is gathered around a similar tree waiting for AGI: the definitions don't agree, the dates keep moving, and some of the field's most respected researchers suspect it's the wrong spot. Meanwhile the leaves keep coming, and companies are already cutting jobs on the name alone. Written by Tabrez Syed. Narrated by an AI voice.
Tabrez Syed – Essays on AI
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot
Tabrez Syed – Essays on AI
My essays on AI, read aloud. Each week I take one question about where this technology is heading and hold it up to a different lens — economics, history, craft, the waves that came before. I have spent a career inside those waves: distributed computing, Java, the web, mobile, and now this one. The essays are how I make sense of what is the same and what is genuinely different. Written by Tabrez Syed. Narrated sometimes by an AI, which is only fair — a show about AI that did everything by hand would be making a different argument. Full essays at blog.boxcars.ai. A Mandalivia production.
My essays on AI, read aloud. Each week I take one question about where this technology is heading and hold it up to a different lens — economics, history, craft, the waves that came before. I have spent a career inside those waves: distributed computing, Java, the web, mobile, and now this one. The essays are how I make sense of what is the same and what is genuinely different. Written by Tabrez Syed. Narrated sometimes by an AI, which is only fair — a show about AI that did everything by hand would be making a different argument. Full essays at blog.boxcars.ai. A Mandalivia production.Listen on
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