AI Advances Are Exciting! Also Unintelligible!

AI Advances Are Exciting! Also Unintelligible!

Psychologists use various terms to describe disorganized speech. “Word salad” – words and concepts so disconnected that there is no logical thread. “Neologisms” – made up words that have no literal meaning. “Loose association” – associations that are...
DeepSeek And The Business Of AI

DeepSeek And The Business Of AI

AI is in the news lately. Oh, you noticed? There’s been so much AI news that at times it has almost cut through the political chaos.  There was the day last week when US stocks lost more than $1 trillion dollars in market cap because of a newish Chinese AI named...
Google NotebookLM & AI Podcasts

Google NotebookLM & AI Podcasts

Take a minute – literally just one minute – and listen to the beginning of one of these podcast conversations about recent books. Each is about ten minutes long but just listen to the first minute of one of them to get the idea. I’ll wait. Veilpiercer by Bruce...
What Has AI Done For You Lately?

What Has AI Done For You Lately?

AI is improving apps and services that we use every day, but that’s not the whole story. There are more important developments powered by AI going on now behind the scenes. I’ve got two examples for you – weather forecasting and virus research – but it will make more...