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…
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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…
It’s a Double-Edged Sword
With artificial intelligence now able to generate convincing fake news, decreasing numbers of people will be able to differentiate between it and a reality defined by knowledge, wide reading and…
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…
Close to the Wind
“Close to the Wind” is the sequel to the first story I’d ever had professionally published, “Any Port in a Storm” (Parsec, 1999). They both… The post Close to the…
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…
Stupidity: The Followup
And continuing with the theme of stupidity, here is an AI-generated video that speaks much truth. WARNING: Do not watch if you are offended by crude language. If you want…
Stupidity: The Epidemic
For those who are congenitally stupid, I have much sympathy. For those who are stupid yet think they are the smartest person in the room, I have only disdain. And…
Stupidity Is The Real Threat
There is an article in today’s Star about the threat to Canadian democracy posed by artificial intelligence. But I can’t help but wonder if the real threat is human stupidity.…
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…
You Can’t Say We Haven’t Been Warned
Anyone who has ever watched the film Colossus – The Forbin Project or enjoyed the revamped Battlestar Galactica will know that artificial intelligence, whether embraced willingly or created accidentally, never…
Object Removal with Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023 – The De-urbanization of a Pond
Back in the day, Inpaint used to be the standard for removing objects from digital photographs. Then I discovered Photo Stamp Remover which I found to be much better and…
Blinding the Mind
Before long, if you want to remain connected to reality you may have to work for it. We’re already up to our alligators in fake news, sometimes by liars who…
An Update To A Marriage Made In Hell
It is good to know that the mainstream media is finally paying attention to the new technology that I outlined in yesterday’s post. And it seems that DARPA, a secretive…
A Marriage Made In Hell
Now this is really disturbing. The Verge reports that Jordan Peele and Buzzfeed combined forces to make a fake Public Service Ad: Using some of the latest AI techniques, Peele…
AI—will they keep us as pets?
It isn’t as if we don’t have enough BIG things to worry about—global warming, resource depletion, nuclear war, for starters—now renowned physicist Stephen Hawking and brilliant entrepreneur and inventor Elon…