• Stop Smart Software! A Petition to Save the World! Signed by 350 Humans!

    Updated: 2023-05-30 15:32:34
    Note: This essay is the work of a real and still-alive dinobaby. No smart software involved, just a dumb humanoid. A “real” journalist (Kevin Roose), who was told to divorce his significant other for a chat bot published the calming, measured, non-clickbait story “AI Poses Risk of Extinction, Industry Leaders Warn.” What’s ahead for the […]

  • Regulate Does Not Mean Regulate. Leave the EU Does Not Mean Leave the EU. Got That?

    Updated: 2023-05-30 09:25:00
    I wrote about Sam AI-man’s explanation that he wants regulation. I pointed out that his definition of regulate means leaving OpenAI free to do whatever it can to ace out the Google and a handful of other big outfits chasing the pot of gold at the end of the AI rainbow. I just learned from […]

  • Probability: Who Wants to Dig into What Is Cooking Beneath the Outputs of Smart Software?

    Updated: 2023-05-30 09:20:00
    Note: This essay is the work of a real and still-alive dinobaby. No smart software involved, just a dumb humanoid. The ChatGPT and smart software “revolution” depends on math only a few live and breathe. One drawer in the pigeon hole desk of mathematics is probability. You know the coin flip example. Most computer science […]

  • Smart Software Knows Right from Wrong

    Updated: 2023-05-29 09:20:00
    Note: This essay is the work of a real and still-alive dinobaby. No smart software involved, just a dumb humanoid. The AI gold rush is underway. I am not sure if the gold is the stuff of the King’s crown or one of those NFT confections. I am not sure what company will own the […]

  • Shall We Train Smart Software on Scientific Papers? That Is an Outstanding Idea!

    Updated: 2023-05-29 09:15:00
    Note: This essay is the work of a real and still-alive dinobaby. No smart software involved, just a dumb humanoid. I read “Fake Scientific Papers Are Alarmingly Common. But New Tools Show Promise in Tackling Growing Symptom of Academia’s Publish or Perish Culture.” New tools sounds great. Navigate to the cited document to get the […]

  • Trust in Google and Its Smart Software: What about the Humans at Google?

    Updated: 2023-05-26 09:20:00
    The buzz about Google’s injection of its smart software into its services is crowding out other, more interesting sounds. For example, navigate to “Texas Reaches $8 Million Settlement With Google Over Blatantly False Pixel Ads: Google Settled a Lawsuit Filed by AG Ken Paxton for Alleged False Advertisements for its Google Pixel 4 Smartphone.” The […]

  • The Return: IBM Watsonx!

    Updated: 2023-05-26 09:15:00
    Note: This essay is the work of a real and still-alive dinobaby. No smart software involved, just a dumb humanoid. It is no surprise IBM’s entry into the recent generative AI hubbub is a version of Watson, the company’s longtime algorithmic representative. Techspot reports, “IBM Unleashes New AI Strategy with ‘watsonx’.” The new suite of […]

  • OpenAI Clarifies What “Regulate” Means to the Sillycon Valley Crowd

    Updated: 2023-05-25 14:20:46
    Note: This essay is the work of a real and still-alive dinobaby. No smart software involved, just a dumb humanoid. Sam AI-man begged (at least he did not get on his hands and knees) the US Congress to regulate artificial intelligence (whatever that means). I just read “Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Leave the EU […]

  • Need a Guide to Destroying Social Cohesion: Chinese Academics Have One for You

    Updated: 2023-05-25 09:20:00
    Note: This essay is the work of a real and still-alive dinobaby. No smart software involved, just a dumb humanoid. The TikTok service is one that has kicked the Google in its sensitive bits. The “algorithm” befuddles both European and US “me too” innovators. The ability of short, crunchy videos has caused restaurant chefs to […]

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