Updated: 2025-02-28 10:53:00
With big news stories emerging at a frantic pace, one might turn to AI to consolidate the key points. If so, one might become woefully ill informed. “AI Chatbots Unable to Accurately Summarise News, BBC Finds.” The BBC tested the biggest AIs on content from its own site–OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and Perplexity […]
Updated: 2025-02-28 10:37:00
No smart software. Just a dinobaby doing his thing. I read “Stuff You Should Have Been Taught in College But Weren’t” reveals a young person who has some dinobaby notions. Good for Casey Handmer, PhD. Despite his brush with Hyperloop, he has retained an ability to think clearly about education. Caltech and the JPL have […]
Updated: 2025-02-28 10:07:00
A Super Bowl ad is a big deal for companies that shell out for those pricy spots. So it is a big embarrassment when one goes awry. The BBC reports, “Google Remakes Super Bowl Ad After AI Cheese Gaffe.” Google was trying to how smart Gemini is. Instead, the ad went out with a stupid […]
Updated: 2025-02-27 10:53:00
This blog post is the work of a real-live dinobaby. No smart software involved. Apple has experienced some growing pains with its Apple Intelligence. Incorrect news and assorted Siri weirdness indicated that designing a rectangle and laptop requires different skills from delivering a high impact, mass market smart software “solution.” I know Apple is working […]
Updated: 2025-02-27 10:37:00
AI applications are barreling full steam ahead into all corners of our lives. Yet there are serious concerns about the very structure of how LLMs work. The BCS Chartered Institute for IT asks, "Does Current AI Represent a Dead End?" Cybersecurity professor Eerke Boiten writes: "From the perspective of software engineering, current AI systems are […]
Updated: 2025-02-27 10:07:00
We hear a lot about the most prominent AI tools like ChatGPT, Dall-E, and Grammarly. But there are many more options designed for a wide range of tasks. Inspiration blogger Ayo-Ibidapo has rounded up "100 AI Toos for Every Need: The Ultimate List." He succinctly introduces his list by observing: "AI is revolutionizing industries, making […]
Updated: 2025-02-26 10:53:00
AIs gobble datasets for training. It is another fact that many LLMs and datasets contain biased information, are incomplete, or plain stink. One ethical but cumbersome way to train algorithms would be to notify people that their data, creative content, or other information will be used to train AI. Offering to pay for the right […]
Updated: 2025-02-26 10:37:00
Many would argue humanity is nothing if not creative. If not, we would be living the way we were thousands of years ago. But, asks the Financial Times, "Is Innovation Slowing Down? With Matt Clancy." Nah—Look how innovative iPhones and Windows upgrades are. The post presents the audio of an interview between journalist John Burn-Murdoch […]
Updated: 2025-02-26 10:07:00
Are prices for AI-generated research too darn high? One firm thinks so. In a Temu-type bid to take over the market, reports VentureBeat, "Perplexity Just Made AI Research Crazy Cheap—What that Means for the Industry." CEO Aravind Srinivas credits open source software for making the move possible, opining that "knowledge should be universally accessible." Knowledge, […]
Updated: 2025-02-25 10:53:00
What a shock. It seems there are some privacy concerns around Deepseek. We learn from the Boston Herald, “Researchers Link Deepseek’s Blockbuster Chatbot to Chinese Telecom Banned from Doing Business in US.” Former Wall Street Journal and now AP professional Byron Tau writes: “The website of the Chinese artificial intelligence company Deepseek, whose chatbot became […]
