Engaging Life with Courage and Intelligence
If you have used chatbots, you may have noticed that most chatbots have become more predictable. In one sense, that is good, but in another, it is limiting and perhaps frustrating. The key interface and human skill to use an AI-based chatbot is the prompt. With ChatGPT or any other chatbot, we, as feeble humans,…
Creating an AI video is a lot like raising kids, or so I am told. Like a child, there is a beginning in creating an AI video, whether it is by conscious design or an accident. Next, both the AI and the child require some degree of instruction or latitude to develop. The following are…
Did you ever participate in a white elephant exchange at Christmas? Do you know someone who bought a piece of property that became a white elephant? Psychologists even use the term to mean “any truth, emotion, or experience that feels too threatening for the relationship to last.” It has evolved into a catchall term for…
If you listen to the stock market wonks, they will tell you that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will take most of our jobs away. This might be true, but at least we can use our imagination to entertain ourselves!
Neural networks…that sounds pretty geeky! It may sound geeky, but it is at the heart of how the universe works, particularly for all humans. Around 1984, a physics professor at Brooklyn College told me I should study “neural networks.” I was then an associate vice president responsible for academic and administrative computing, and I thought…
Make America Like Yesterday (MALY) This article focuses on the MAGA-led march into a potential economic disaster. Ignore Trump’s tariffs, immigration, and deficit spending. A longer-term danger lies in how America acquires and distributes energy. Over the last year or so, I’ve read several articles about the energy policies in various countries. As much as…
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt was a Wall Street Journal Top 10 Book of 2024. His book describes what he calls the transition from the “play-based” childhood to the “phone-based” childhood. He discusses the reengineering of the brains of America’s children by Silicon Valley’s social media. He asserts that the dopamine-reward systems of social…
Sociologists and anthropologists call it cultural lag. As a rule of thumb, it takes 20 years for a new technology or transformative policy to be embraced by a society. Some early adopters embrace the change almost immediately. For some strange reason, the early adopters are younger than the older laggards. Americans are facing so many…
Artificial Intelligence is the new gold rush in the world economy. Investors and governments are salivating and promising all sorts of benefits and riches coming from AI. AI is a significant technology, but before we become intoxicated by all the hype, let’s take a breath and think about our collective actions. Virtually everyone will be…
Beliefs about Artificial Intelligence How does everyone feel about artificial intelligence (AI)? AI has been around since the mid-1950s. I asked my tech guru in the 1970s to define AI, and he responded, “It’s using a computer to do things we haven’t done before.” In the beginning, one of the goals of AI was to…