AI
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Bulls-eyes
Tom Fishburne nails marketing bullshit across the ages. David Siegel on defining AGI: "I think a better definition is when a program is less wrong than most experts, and it admits there is much more to know. Continue reading
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Toward giving future thanks
The puppet is not human and doesn't work for you Just a question: Can Big Ai make more money selling your brain to advertisers than the surveillance-based adtech fecosystem does now? I suspect both OpenAI and Google believe the answer is yes. Along those same lines, Ted Gioia reminds us that Big AI is already our Continue reading
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Saturdaze
Exceedingly common, turns out I was excited to see and shoot a butterfly (above) that a search (remember that?) tells me is a Common Buckeye. The News in Hues Poynter says Nexstar hopes to get its bid to buy Tegna (politically speaking) red-lit. It’s one more way the Redstream eats the Mainstream. Heavy Earth is two Continue reading
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Else wares
Not enough water Hotels on the south rim of the Grand Canyon are closed indefinitely. Naturally The most downloaded country song is by an AI. Or Not Says here the AI bubble will burst. Geoffrey Hinton, Big AI’s Cassandra, says otherwise. Continue reading
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Possible facts
Which is the most fun? Click on every busClick here to continue the surveyAccept the use of cookiesCreate accountReset passwordAre you still here? And is that why your famous School of Journalism got turned into the Media Department? NiemanLab: “Biased,” “boring,” “chaotic,” and “bad”: A majority of teens hold negative views of news media, report Continue reading
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Findings
Toward personal AI. Balnce wants to give everyone "their own personal supercomputer. "You can start with a "personal intent navigator" app. I just downloaded mine for the iPhone. (It's mobile only so far.) We'll see how it goes. Closer lookings Johnny Ryan says "the Commission’s (and Germany’s) plan to gut EU digital rules will hurt Europe’s Continue reading
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Smart is as Smart Does
Never mind that Artificial Intelligence is neither. As most of us know and understand it, AI is an answer machine. Or a know-it-all librarian who looks stuff up and gives you answers. While it uses the first person voice and speaks in a friendly style, its humanity is pure emulation. It’s not human but speaking Continue reading
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Who’s your agent?
M.G. Siegler says AI is Breaking the Browser’s Back. His problem starts with OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas, which some publishers won’t let view their contents on the Web. For example, if you are reading this blog post with an Atlas browser, this link to the NYTimes will get you this message instead of a Web page: “ChatGPT is Continue reading
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Nanofacts
I just tested out nanochat, which Turning Post says is bigger than you think. Seemed interesting, so I asked it two questions. Here is the exchange: Me: What does Mt. Everest weigh? Nanochat: Mountain Everest, the highest mountain in the world, weighs approximately 14,007 pounds (6,354 kilograms) on average. However, due to the unique geology and Continue reading
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The Hotel Model of AI
What I like best about Keith Teare‘s latest essay, Who Owns The Front Door to AI? If it isn’t you, its game over, is that it sounds like he’s setting up the case for personal AI. But he’s not. He’s describing how our AI-assisted lives will get sucked through better interfaces deep into one or more Continue reading
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Getting Real With AI.
How do we make a mutual sense of our co-existence in the natural and digital worlds? To see how hard that is, consider this: There is also no “on” in “online.” No “in.” Think about the prepositions we use to make sense of the natural world: in, on, under, around, through, beside, within, beneath, above, into, Continue reading
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New Life for LIVE
Colbert’s cancellation looks political, but it’s not. The show was a ratings winner, but a money loser. And the ratings for all of late night, like all of live TV, have been in decline for decades, along with the question, “What’s on?” We live in the Age of Optionality now. Watch or listen to whatever Continue reading
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Education 3.0
Education 1.0 was about learning one one-on-one, or one one-on-few. Also by ourselves. This kind of on-site discovery and mentorship gave us stone tools, cave art, clothing, shelter, writing, engineering, construction on every scale, and great artists in every age. Writing was involved, mostly of the scribal kind before the Gutenberg Parenthesis began. After that, Continue reading
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Saturday, 5 July 2025
Examples abound. I like Nicolas Gruen's conversation with a silicon friend. A pull quote, and part of Nicolas' argument (as reflected by silicon): "institutions blend power and purpose." Think of how new power today is trashing old purposes. As if a panel full of unwanted designs in PowerPoint wasn't annoying enough. Ted Gioia shares my Continue reading
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Saturday, June 28, 2025
Obsession persists. I’ll never stop being a radio guy, no matter how much listening “what’s on” goes down, and radio itself becomes as anachronistic as steam engines. This is why, five years ago, I wrote on Quora how cars saved radio when TV got huge in the 1950s. And now I have just learned, from Continue reading
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Friday, June 27, 2025
Modest ambitions. I’ll be on the Immergence podcast (above) this coming Tuesday, July 1, at Noon Eastern time, talking with Nico Fara about The Intention Economy, ProjectVRM, Customer Commons, Personal AI, and using MyTerms to completely flip the script on agreements with websites and services, obsolescing all those annoying cookie notices—and blowing up surveillance-based adtech Continue reading
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Thursday, 19 June 2025
Good read. Lenin Peak (Қуллаи Ибни Сино) is a 7,134 m (23,406 ft) triangular prominence in the Trans-Alay Range that divides Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, but was still in the Soviet Union when an avalanche killed forty-three climbers. A Crushing Wave of Snow is the disaster story told by Miguel Helft, a climber who was witness Continue reading
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Friday
Kwaaiday the 13th. If you're curious about personal AI (and you should be, especially of the open source kind), you might like to sit in on a meeting of folks volunteering toward making it happen, Kwaai has its weekly meeting going on right now at the Zoom link atop its home page. See some of Continue reading
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Thursday
And having any readers is better than having none. So far (2:30 pm), this blog post has had three visitors. (Update at 11pm: eleven visitors.) And I’m not even sure those visitors have read any of this. Meanwhile, Online Sports Betting is For Losers is now up to 3,252 visits, second all-time behind Death is Continue reading
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Tuesday
We’re covered. Zoom in to satellitemap.space. The vast majority of low Earth orbit satellites (all the white dots above) are Starlink’s. Play around with the tabs. This, more than raw power, is what gives authoritarians their authority. Dana Blankenhorn has a good post on Authority. With respect to my own thoughts on the topic, there’s what’s said in Continue reading