In February, 2021, the state of Texas experienced one of the most brutal winters in its history. Snow storms overwhelmed power plants and left Texans in the cold and dark. Dozens died, some from exposure to the cold, with no electricity to heat their homes. And yet one business in Texas was getting electricity -… Continue reading Running on Empty: How AI, EVs and Bitcoin are Driving us Back to Nuclear Power
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Three Scenarios in the Post-AI Revolution: Renaissance, Demolition Man and Goldilocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERXlUX4A6kU Wooly mammoths parading in the snow, pirate ships navigating waves of coffee, and intimate walks through the streets of Japan - Oh my! The reaction to Sora, Open AI's new text-to-video generator, has been, simply, WOW! (See Cleo Abram's enthusiastic reaction below.) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ByR_kZ892yA Yes, we've been inundated by large language models like ChatGPT, Gemini,… Continue reading Three Scenarios in the Post-AI Revolution: Renaissance, Demolition Man and Goldilocks
Quantum Computing and the Energy Grid Use Case: How Scottie in 1986 is Like QC in 2023
We are spoiled. We take things for granted. Consider our frustration when a phone call drops while speeding along a California freeway, or our expectation that a rice ball filled with tuna and mayonnaise will always be waiting at our favorite Tokyo convenience store. We effortlessly make purchases in Thai baht with a credit card… Continue reading Quantum Computing and the Energy Grid Use Case: How Scottie in 1986 is Like QC in 2023
Lennon, Elvis and Princess Leia: Digital Doubles, Deep Fakes and the Double-Edged Sword of Generative AI
A Midjourney generated image. On November 2, 2023, the world welcomed, probably, the last Beatles song ever to be released. While a 1970s demo tape recording of John Lennon's "Now and Then" was considered for release in the 1990s, the producers felt the quality of the recording would be a great disappointment to fans, so… Continue reading Lennon, Elvis and Princess Leia: Digital Doubles, Deep Fakes and the Double-Edged Sword of Generative AI
The Rising Occurrence of Self-Censorship and the Rising Need for Critical Thinking
It was a simple question posed by the Thai filmmaker. What did these six film and TV productions have in common? Spotlight, directed by Tom McCarthy JFK, directed by Oliver Stone Social Network, directed by David Fincher The Crown, created by Peter Morgan All the President's Men, directed by Alan J. Pakula A… Continue reading The Rising Occurrence of Self-Censorship and the Rising Need for Critical Thinking
How ChatGPT Quickly Transformed our Dream Future into a Nightmare Scenario: The AI Community’s Call for a Pause
The robots are coming. You just won’t see them. World domination could happen. You just wouldn’t know it. If AI super intelligence becomes so super powerful, why would it manhandle us when it could easily manipulate us? After all, when we, the "superior" specie, lead the cow, the "inferior" specie, the beast is unaware if… Continue reading How ChatGPT Quickly Transformed our Dream Future into a Nightmare Scenario: The AI Community’s Call for a Pause
What it Means to Be Human: Our Competitive Advantages Over AI
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." "The ultimate measure… Continue reading What it Means to Be Human: Our Competitive Advantages Over AI
Outsourcing Humanity: A Love Story, by ChatGPT-4
I've recently been obsessed with crowdsourcing platforms like Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Those who sign up to these platforms do Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) - online jobs like answering surveys, identifying images, transcribing audio files, providing sentiment response, or proofreading. In exchange, they get paid relatively small amounts from twenty cents to several dollars. Some who… Continue reading Outsourcing Humanity: A Love Story, by ChatGPT-4
Chat GPT Accelerates “Time to Insight”: Look Out Knowledge Worker! ChatGPT’s Coming for You!
Insight, Not Data We don't want more data, or information, or details. At least not for issues we are trying to better understand. We want insight - different assumptions, new perspectives, credible context - that can lead to new ideas. Friends seek out their inner circle hoping their close friends will have advice. Students go… Continue reading Chat GPT Accelerates “Time to Insight”: Look Out Knowledge Worker! ChatGPT’s Coming for You!
Flying Up the Learning Curve in this New Age of Enlightenment: How Lee Sedol and AI Showed Humanity We Still Have Lots to Learn, and That’s Great!
On March 9, 2016, World Go Champion, Lee Sedol of South Korea, had been roundly defeated in Game 1 by AlphaGo, an AI system designed by DeepMind to play the ancient North Asian board game of strategy. The game of Go is very complex, and defeating Go masters had been the holy grail for AI… Continue reading Flying Up the Learning Curve in this New Age of Enlightenment: How Lee Sedol and AI Showed Humanity We Still Have Lots to Learn, and That’s Great!