4 February 2025 | AI, Energy, How Does it Work?, Video |
While most people were distracted by China’s new flavors of AI, something even bigger was happening.
China’s EAST experimental fusion reactor ran at temps 6X hotter than sun’s core for almost 18 whole minutes, doubling its previous record.
Well, who cares??
You do! More people are realizing that current “Green Energy” push isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and fusion reactors could provide nearly infinite energy with no radioactive waste.
But the most interesting thing is the curious link between AI and fusion, and what it says about technology itself…
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24 August 2024 | AI, How Does it Work? |
AI is being pushed from every direction.
There’s only one problem: it tends to “hallucinate”.
What does that actually mean?
Well, it means that AI likes to literally make stuff up… sort of like a pathological human being.
Fun for the whole family, right?
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3 August 2024 | AI, Computers, Gizmos, How Does it Work?, Spare Me!, Video |
When you imagine your future with the amazing technology of AI, chances are it doesn’t look like what’s happening today.
In fact, it’s not even close.
If you’re sick of hearing about AI while lamenting the lack of actual, cool uses for it, you’re not alone.
On top of that, it’s getting pretty bad out there: from power problems to money problems to ‘model collapse’, AI is on the road to changing… well, nothing at all, actually!
It’s pretty much a mess.
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12 March 2024 | AI, Computers, How Does it Work?, Spare Me!, Video |
AI is all the rage.
But with the recent Gemini disaster along with a lack of truly killer applications using AI, it doesn’t seem like AI is really going anywhere.
So, is it all just hype, or what?
Join me for a look at the real danger presented by AI.
Hint: It ain’t SkyNet you need to be worried about!
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7 March 2023 | AI, Computers, Gizmos, Spare Me! |
Windows 12 has been in the news lately.
Specifically, rumors are swirling that not only will there be a Windows 12, but it will be “AI-powered”.
Of course, this requires support preferably from Intel’s next 14th-gen processors as well as from AMD’s equivalent offerings.
That means Windows 12 will probably have even tighter hardware requirements than Windows 11, sadly…
But hang on, does anyone even use Windows anymore?!
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21 June 2022 | AI, How Does it Work?, Programming, Video |
In recent news, a guy at Google claimed that one of their AIs, LaMDA, had become sentient.
Well, that’s quite a claim!
So, I decided to read the entire transcript of a chat with LaMDA and see what all the fuss is about.
Turns out, it’s not so simple…
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16 April 2019 | AI, Gizmos, Video |
Well, I did it again: I read a book.
This time, it was the story of China’s recent technological revolution.
If you’re wondering what’s going on over in the East in the techie arena, it’s a great read.
In short, it appears that smartphones + crazy-fast innovation have turned China into the New Silicon Valley.
And that has interesting implications for the future of AI…
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18 December 2017 | AI, Computers, How Does it Work?, Video |
We hear a lot about A.I. – artificial intelligence – these days. But is it really here?
Should you be worried about Skynet and terminators and some little punk named John having to grow up and save the world?
Not quite. At least not yet, anyway…
While so-called machine learning algorithms are insanely powerful these days, they aren’t really true AI.
Then again, we keep changing out definition of AI with every advancement in technology…
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While most people were distracted by China’s new flavors of AI, something even bigger was happening.
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