Rafe Brena, Ph.D.

Opinion We humans are proud creatures Rafe Brena, Ph.D. · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 9 min read · 10 hours ago — Image by the author using ChatGPT Recently, the controversy about whether or not AI can reason has heated up. OpenAI’s o1 model, released a few months ago, was welcomed with a mix of reactions, ranging from “It’s just smoke and mirrors” to “A new paradigm of AI.” AI’s reasoning capabilities

Symbolic reasoning may still be alive… Rafe Brena, Ph.D. · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 7 min read · 11 hours ago — Photo by Arno Senoner on Unsplash Hallucinations, factual errors, a decrease in public interest, and a plunge in investment —all of these and more have been mentioned recently in news and comments that look like the harbinger of a serious setback for Generative AI. Some have even called for the

The tech is called “Silent Voice.” Rafe Brena, Ph.D. · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 7 min read · 2 hours ago — Photo by Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash Cutting-edge smart assistants, like GPT-4o, could be awesome for voice interaction with an AI, but sometimes voice interaction itself has its drawbacks: You may cringe about talking to a device in front of others and be afraid to look silly.

Rafe Brena, Ph.D. · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 7 min read · 8 hours ago — Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash The cause of their demise could surprise you. Young people may not be familiar with the term, but “Expert Systems” was a major technological initiative during the 1980s and 1990s of the last century. I got my 30y full-time job precisely because of Expert Systems. That was in 1989, and