AI Doesn’t Worry Me, but the People Behind It Are Another Matter
It's a Powerful Tool in the Wrong Hands
Topic
ChatGPT
A collection of 22 issues
It’s Mad, Mad World
Pointless AI Chess Tournaments, Trump’s CEO Tirades, and the Future of Work
Observations on OpenAI, Fractured Identities, and Misplaced Idealism
It’s Not a Book Review, but Books Provided the Inspiration
Why AI is Attracting VC Backing for Software Development
And Why It Might Fall Short of Expectations in Other Areas
Musk Bemoans Fate, Dell Gets AI Boost, and Microsoft Overseas News
The Vain Task of Keeping Up
This Post is About More Than AI, Human Agency, and Click-Bait Headlines
In Praise of Human Thought
Why AI Scenarios Are More Important than Predictions
And Now for A Very Different Take on the DeepSeek Cause Célèbre
A media storm raged in the wake of news that China’s DeepSeek open-source AI models were capable of equaling or surpassing the performance of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which is decidedly not open source.
In the past few days, arguably too much has been written and said about the emergence
LNG Oversupply? With Tech’s Ascension, There’s No Such Thing as Enough Energy
A few years ago, if you flew across North America on a clear day, preferably in an aircraft, you would sometimes see natural gas flares burning below you at ground level. Natural gas often is found in proximity to oil, so while the oil was extracted and transported for processing
Taking in the Big Picture at OpenAI
It’s nearly impossible to keep up with all the announcements relating to genAI. Something new – funding, partnerships, releases of new or improved LLMs, executive hires, launches of strategic roadmaps – jumps to the front of the queue each day, to be brusquely displaced by something else, often later the same