Michael Witbrock

@witbrock

U of Auckland Professor. Founder TransAxon.bio @TranzAxon, nz.com, curiouscat.cc, @AI4Good; BCI, AI, NLP, ML; ex: IBM, CMU. AI that reasons & Improved brains

Auckland, NZ

Joined September 2008

Michael Witbrock
@witbrock
Aug 12
The entire argument, in the limit, for investment in vast data centres by AI companies is that the scale will enable them to deliver AI at lower cost than sovereign or on-prem models. There is a strong case for both, but that case is not cost saving.
Michael Witbrock
@witbrock
Aug 7
If Andy Burnham wanted to signal, clearly, Labour's competence and lack of capture, he'd find a way to abolish the UK's absurd 5 second imposition on every website visitor to satisfy the absurd idea that every person needs to be repetitively interrogated on their preference about
Michael Witbrock
@witbrock
Aug 1
AI coding agents can turn a diagnosis into code, tests and permanent architecture in minutes. The “reliability ratchet” makes systems locally defensible but globally less adaptable: additions accumulate, while almost nothing gets removed. In the worst case leads to systems that
The Reliability Ratchet
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Michael Witbrock
@witbrock
Jul 30
Typical operating configuration for an @Apple MacBook power supply. Design and engineering genius!
Michael Witbrock
@witbrock
Jul 26
It's deleted 92000 lines and added 36000. I hope it knows what it's doing.