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The intuition of LLM’s seeming ability to reason

This is a follow-up essay on one of my previous articles:

15 min readApr 29, 2024

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The intuition of LLM’s seeming ability to reason

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Alan Tan

AI will replace programmers faster than lawyers and doctors

It sounds crazy and counter-intuitive? Aren’t programmers the ones who wrote those AI systems? Yes, BUT…

12 min readJan 30, 2024

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AI will replace programmers faster than lawyers and doctors

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Alan Tan
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The Startup

Will UBI Save Us When AI Takes All the Jobs?

Universal Basic Income is gaining support from many, including high-tech execs. With its known flaws, will UBI be a potential solution to…

25 min readDec 26, 2020

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Will UBI Save Us When AI Takes All the Jobs?

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Towards Data Science

Singularity may not require AGI

“Singularity”, the point where AI can improve itself faster than humans can, had been a topic since the 60s. I.J. Good speculated in 1965…

10 min readOct 13, 2020

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Alan Tan
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DataDrivenInvestor

The Power of Being Convincible

Great leaders, like everyone else, aren’t always right, what sets them apart though, is that they recognize and make conscious efforts to…

6 min readAug 14, 2020

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The Power of Being Convincible

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Alan Tan
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Towards Data Science

A Chinese Speaker’s take on the Chinese Room

AI philosophy essay refining Chinese Room thought-experiment — one who communicates intelligently shall not understand a thing they write…

22 min readJul 5, 2019

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A Chinese Speaker’s take on the Chinese Room

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DataDrivenInvestor

What did IBM Watson do wrong in Business AI Strategy

Last month, IBM pared down its Waston drug discovery effort, about 10 months after it scaled back its Watson hospital business.

8 min readJun 1, 2019

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DataDrivenInvestor

Pan-intelligence Coexistence — who are intelligent(2/3)

This is the second of a 3-part mini-series discussing cross-intelligent-species value.

9 min readApr 2, 2019

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Pan-intelligence Coexistence — who are intelligent(2/3)

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DataDrivenInvestor

Is stereoscopic 3D vision what Deep Learning needs to generalize modeling of the reality

As Deep Learning, particularly CNN in image processing gaining its success and fame, it also garnered some serious concerns and criticism…

9 min readMar 20, 2019

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Is stereoscopic 3D vision what Deep Learning needs to generalize modeling of the reality

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Design and Tech.Co

While we externalize our intellect to create AI, it is also changing our idea of human intellect

We are getting into somewhat philosophical discussion, so, we may need to clarify a minimum agreeable idea of “what are intellect and…

16 min readFeb 24, 2019

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While we externalize our intellect to create AI, it is also changing our idea of human intellect

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Alan Tan

Alan Tan

Pan-intelligence futurist — Don’t fear AI as in “Artificial Intelligence” in machines; Be fearful of AI as in ‘Absence of Intelligence’ in humans.

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