Category: Practice

Integrated circuit to AI

The Future of AI: A Repeat of the Past

Reading about the history of the integrated circuit in The Chip by T. R. Reid, there’s an interesting section explaining how Intel quickly realized that building different integrated circuits for hundreds of products simply...

AI bubble

Are we in an AI bubble?

In 1998, I graduated from college in the height of the Internet boom, just before the Internet bubble. Crazy returns on stock investments led more investors to flood the market. Ryan Jacob shared with...

Custom GPT story teller

A Choose Your Own Adventure with ChatGPT

The forge in the Jeweled Halls thrummed like a heartbeat, heat rolling in waves over Moin’s brow. His hammer struck the rocket’s outer casing in a rhythmic dance—clang, pause, adjust, clang—each blow coaxing the...

Coming crisis in authenticity

The Coming Crisis of Authenticity

Imagine… A Human Resource representative, charged with hiring an employee for new technology initiative, puts together a job ad. The HR rep partially understands the technology, but not completely. As they start writing the...

But is it Art?

AI promises to transform our world. With in influx of generative tools, from ChatGPT to MidJourney, people are starting to question what fields will be transformed. Some people argue that some fields, such as...

Section 230 and the Future of the Internet

Before the Supreme Court are two cases that question an immunity clause in the 1996 Communications Decency Act. Part of this act included a section (Section 230) that protected companies that hosted user content...

Age of AI

The Age of AI

What a trio – former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger; former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt; and current dean of MIT College of Computing, Daniel Huttenlocher. These three teamed up to write a book...

The problem with education

The Problem with Education in America

Two interactions this week helped me to see the current problem in education. In the first, a friend complained about the high cost of college and how it isn’t worth it any more. In...