Articles tagged with AI

1. YouTube and the Trust Deficit

   YouTube is awash with slick videos that offer seemingly authoritative advice on health, wealth, current affairs, and many other aspects of life. But if you were to look behind the curtain, all you would see is smoke and mirrors—not human experts. There is an uncanny resemblance to the revelatory scene in the movie, The Wizard of Oz. This is especially annoying and alarming, and is typical of the devaluation of truth that we are currently experiencing. And I think that AI, in collusion with human frailty and fallibility, has facilitated this trust deficit.

2. Differential Equations

   A differential equation (DE) connects a function with its derivative(s). In calculus, the function \(y(x)\) is known, and its derivative, \(y'(x)\), needs to be found. In differential equations, the derivative, \(y'(x)\), is known, and the function, \(y(x)\), needs to be identified. As with indefinite integration in calculus, the solution will throw up one or more arbitrary constants. The values of these constants must be determined by the initial conditions provided in the problem in order to obtain a unique solution.