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John Oliver beat us to it! Just joking. Others have been hinting at the same. I made similar observations in a recent post about LaMDA and in one of my first posts back in 2015, Continue reading Souped-up Chatbots: Humanity has a Mirror
It’s that time of year again, and happily, my silly little Christmas poem “Wonder, the Christmas Cat” is still making the rounds. We could use a little levity, don’t you think? Speaking of animals, I’ve Continue reading An Entire Planet Grows… Smarter?
Did you know that I have a Halloween-themed short story that’s free to read? The process of submission takes so long – and this was in 2020 during the worst of the pandemic – that Continue reading The Ordered Chaos of “Odd Wheels” — and Novels!
After I shared my post “The Slow Boil Cooks the Frog” (June 17, 2022), I received a comment on Facebook that I might have missed something. In my post, I’d talked about quantum computers and Continue reading Why I was Unconvinced LaMDA was Sentient
When I ran across this article in Scientific American about how quantum computers actually work, I knew I had to read it. Zaira Nazario, author of “How to Fix Quantum Computing Bugs”, is a quantum Continue reading The Slow Boil Cooks the Frog: A convergence of man and machine right under our noses
I received an email today from Luna Station Quarterly announcing its newest issue. It says, “There is always hope… even in this troublesome batch of stories… where grief, loneliness and other prickly emotions take center Continue reading Forgotten Civilizations: A Sympathetic Look at Symbols, Reflective of our Times
Purely rational beings… well, a truly self-aware AGI (artificial generalized intelligence) would be just such a being. This article from The Guardian suggests that maybe in as few as 10 years or a many as Continue reading A Quick Addition to My Last Post: The AI Angle
Across western society, we have sensed for a long time that the emotional centers of ourselves are lacking an outlet and as a result are under-developing, and it is a shame. So often, when we Continue reading This Way Lies Quicksand
I can tell by the number of hits to my previous post (“UFOs: Why so weird?”) that this topic interests many of you. I have a little more to say. The evidence we’ve been given Continue reading UFO Weirdness continued: a “New Sheriff in Town”
If there’s one topic that’s always sort of lurking in the back of my mind, it’s UFOs. Or as the recent lingo goes, UAPs. But I’m going to stick with the term UFO here, because Continue reading UFOs: Why so weird?