Category: AI harbinger

  • Things are About to get Weird AF… and Weirder still.

    Things are About to get Weird AF… and Weirder still.

    So, given the AI’s exponential growth, and its insatiable appetite for content (and our utter willingness — even enthusiasm — to feed it), where are we now? And more importantly, where will we be in the next 12 months & 12 years? One thing’s for sure: If you think it’s weird now?… Its about to…

  • Who Owns my iPhone 14? The shocking truth: Not Me.

    Who Owns my iPhone 14? The shocking truth: Not Me.

    SYNOPSIS: The year is 2022. Everything from your car to your washing machine to your fricking lightbulb is “smart” and “connected.” While this has a massive upside in terms of convenience and magic, it also has a massive downside: you never really own it. Think about it: If Apple blacklists you, your shiny new iPhone…

  • AI Chess: A Brief History of a Complicated Game

    AI Chess: A Brief History of a Complicated Game

    As long as there have been computers, there have been programmers with dreams of building an app to play chess. Indeed, Chess playing programs have been one of the major testbeds for both programming skills and AI development since the 1950s. And they’ve received various levels of amusement and condemnation from the global chess-playing community…

  • The AI Tsunami, Part I

    The AI Tsunami, Part I

    the AI Tsunami: Our Brave New a.i.World & where it’s all Heading [based on a virtual conversation with Tara over coffee & breakfast one morning]2022.10.30 SUN — 07:14 AM PST Once upon a Time… There used to be a profession called painting. The job was, ostensibly, to capture the essence of a person, or an…