What is

AI model

What comes out of training. Take an algorithm, run it over a body of data, and what you are left with is a set of numbers, millions of them, that encode the patterns found in that data. That file is the model. It has no logic you could read, only weights. Swap the data and the same algorithm produces a different model.

Most of what is called automation is not

…both counts, in opposite directions. A rule stops at input it cannot read; an AI model continues. A rule with no instruction halts; a model always produces an answer, including for cases it has never seen. Cases that used to stop now pass. Cases that used to…

AI is software

…isolating them and compromised parts of the systems of Hugging Face, a platform for AI models. During that evaluation, OpenAI’s monitors did not run, and the safeguards it uses for its public products were left out.7 The models did what nobody intended. But…

WordPress just went AI

…7.0, adding AI to a site meant patchwork. Each plugin built its own connection to an AI model, with its own keys and its own rules, so a site with three AI plugins had three separate setups and three places to control them. Version 7.0 moved that connection into the…