Internet Search: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
In the beginning (yesterday) the Internet was an academic network and then the Free-nets (including the National Capital FreeNet of which I was an early member and information provider) were…
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Postscript AI
When I finished writing my last blog post I started to wonder what it would look like if I had asked an LLM-based AI to write it. I have little…
On Reforming Capitalism
These are the conventional definitions of capitalism. Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their use for the purpose of obtaining…
Legit businesses hate this one trick…
This article from The Verge talks about how disastrous it would be if developers are forced to ask content creators’ permission to use their Intellectual Property – eg. their WORK…
Cryptocurrency and War – Cousins in Absurdity – Challenged by AI
Cryptocurrency – a way to supposedly create wealth by wasting massive amounts of water and energy to do meaningless computer calculations that solve no actual real life problems or serve…
How to Build an Intelligent Online Answer Machine
Ever since Facebook and Amazon people have become lazier, or perhaps more accurately addicted to convenience over all else, including ethics or accuracy. When it comes to information we used…
How to Build an Intelligent Online Answer Machine
Ever since Facebook and Amazon people have become lazier, or perhaps more accurately addicted to convenience over all else, including ethics or accuracy. When it comes to information we used…
The Datasphere Is Coming
The Gates of Polished Horn has many science fiction stories that are preoccupied with the notion of what I call The Datasphere. This is more… The post The Datasphere Is…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Lesley Clark reports on the emergence of documents tying Exxon and its lobbying firm to the hacking of climate activists for the purpose…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Julia Conley reports on the continued accumulation of riches in the hands of a few, as the total wealth of billionaires has more…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jillian Ambrose reports on a study showing that there’s no reason to approve any new fossil fuel development to meet current demand forecasts…
AI – Stealing Voices, Artwork, and Water
AI is an environmental issue. Microsoft-backed OpenAI requires water - massive amounts of the limited resource:"pulled from the watershed of the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers in central Iowas to…
AI – Stealing Voices, Artwork, and Water
AI is an environmental issue. Microsoft-backed OpenAI requires water – massive amounts of the limited resource: “pulled from the watershed of the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers in central Iowas…
The Scourge of the Internet
No I am not writing about the fear and hate mongering taking over the Internet although they are the greatest evils of the Internet. And I am not taking about…
The Scourge of the Internet
No I am not writing about the fear and hate mongering taking over the Internet although they are the greatest evils of the Internet. And I am not taking about…
AI Has Nothing To Do With Intelligence
AI has nothing to do with intelligence but people believe the marketing hype, mostly because we have a distorted idea of what intelligence is, largely due to the media. Take…
AI Has Nothing To Do With Intelligence
AI Has Nothing To Do With Intelligence AI has nothing to do with intelligence but people believe the marketing hype, mostly because we have a distorted idea of what intelligence…
Figuring Out AI Consciousness
AI generated image Artificial Intelligence keeps popping up everywhere from generative AI which created the image above to the financial sector. What AI is currently doing is copying and reformatting…
Be My Eyes, Be My AI
The visual impaired population is getting more support from AI to help them ‘see’ the world around them. The already very successful human-powered app Be My Eyes (we’ve covered it…