A Midjourney generated image. The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built. And the LORD said, "Look, they are one people, and they have all one language…. Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech." - Genesis… Continue reading A New Global Babylon: The Potential of the Universal Translator and the Rise of the Global Super-Empowered Tribe
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
Losing and Finding Yourself: A Perfect Five-Minute Scene From Ted Lasso
In the middle of the journey of my life I awoke in a dark wood where the true way was wholly lost. - Dante Alighieri The precocious young manager of West Ham was out of a job, with all the time in the world to wallow in self-pity. The owner of the AFC… Continue reading Losing and Finding Yourself: A Perfect Five-Minute Scene From Ted Lasso
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
The Yearly Global Experiment that Shouts: Get Your Sleep!
I can predict the future. On Monday, March 13, 2023, more than any other day, significantly more people will suffer from heart attacks, or be involved in car accidents, in the United States and other parts of the world. On Monday, March 13, 2023, people living in the United States, excepting those located in Hawaii… Continue reading The Yearly Global Experiment that Shouts: Get Your Sleep!
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!
In Search of Better Search: Try ChatGPT
Explain AI in the voice of Dr Seuss: Ah, AI, my dear old friend, It's time for us to talk again.AI is a clever thing, A computer that can think and sing.It's not like us, with hair and skin, AI is just a machine within.But don't let that fool you, my dear, AI can do… Continue reading In Search of Better Search: Try ChatGPT