Girish MhatreGenerative AI: The Bloom Is Off The RoseHallucinations are an intractable problem6 min read·Apr 25, 2024----
Girish MhatreThe Turing Test is Dead, Long Live the Turing Test!How to tell humans from zombies8 min read·Aug 21, 2023--1--1
Girish MhatreWhat is it like to be you?Nearly 50 years ago the philosopher Thomas Nagel postulated a thought experiment called, “What Is It Like To Be A Bat?” that quickly became…5 min read·Aug 2, 2021--2--2
Girish MhatreWhy do they hate us, so? (And, what to do about it)J.D. Vance’s 2016 best seller, Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir of growing up in — and ultimately escaping from — the quicksand of endemic…10 min read·Nov 24, 2020--4--4
Girish MhatreAmerican Socialism: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love My iPhoneIn technology, government is not the problem; it is the solution6 min read·Oct 26, 2020--1--1
Girish MhatreDemocracy’s last gleaming (thinking the unthinkable)The likelihood of an overthrow of American democracy grows with every passing day. Beware the ides of November8 min read·Aug 31, 2020--3--3
Girish MhatreIn praise of thoughtlessness: A strategy for copingIn his 1973 Pulitzer prize winning book, The Denial of Death, cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker maintains that we live life as a…6 min read·Jul 22, 2020----
Girish MhatreWhat’s God’s love got to do with it?Unsurprisingly, millions around the globe have turned to the internet for solace as the pandemic sweeps the land; searches related to…4 min read·May 22, 2020----