Verses for the Information Age

Ernest Davis

In loving memory of
my mother, Hadassah F. Davis
and my father-in-law, Richard P. Iano
lovers of poetry

Table of Contents

The Tragic Tale of Tay the Chatbot
NP-Complete
Translation: Human and Machine
Tversky and Kahneman
Virtual Reality
The Sex Robot
The Metaverse
The Occupant
Ring Home Security
Amazon Ring is, once again, the target of unfair complaints from silly, ungrateful people.
Big Data
The Internet of Things
On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models
Psychographics
The Ramsey Number R(5,5)
Educational Software
Beethoven and Bach's B Minor Mass
Intermezzo with Arik
Betelgeuse
Employee Surveillance
The Singularity
Kolmogorov Complexity
My Attempt to Master the Proof-Verification System, LEAN
The Panacea
Wikipedia
On the dispersion and Balkanization of Computer Science education at institutes of higher learning
The Parable of the Robot and the Milk
AI/Purim Spiel
Collaboration
We Rate Dogs
Equifax: or, Trust Betrayed
DeepMind's Business Model
OpenAI
Whack-A-Mole; or A Large Language Model Struggles With the Physics of Drying Clothes
DALL-E 2
"Click to Accept the Terms and Conditions"
A Video Tour of my Phone Bill
Progress in Telephony
All Epigrams are One-Sided and Some are Overused.
The Domesday Book
Gamergate
Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace
Origin Myths
Amazon Turns Books into Garbage
Amazon Chooses Speed Over Safety
Stoop Gourds
Translation of Martial Epigram VI:12
The Palantir of New Orleans
The Security Breach at Verkada
The Island of Null
The 37% Rule
Struggles with Software and Search
The Digital Dark Age
The Guardians
The Rogues' Gallery
The Dark Age
End Notes 



Privately published, June 2017, with some additions since. 



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