July 2, 2024

It’s the middle of 2024 and our world is all AI, all the time. AI dominates tech news and the financial world. Giant companies are spending unbelievable amounts of money to improve AI technology and bulk up their server capacity. Nvidia – the company that makes the chips best suited to running AI – is…

June 18, 2024

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June 11, 2024

There was a full-page ad in the New York Times on Friday for the new Samsung “Bespoke AI” washer/dryer combo. Seriously. Of course “AI laundry” is marketing crap. I’ll bet some business advertised “Crypto Ovens” a couple of years ago. It’s meaningless and stupid. AI hysteria is on the rise. This is still the early…

June 5, 2024

I thought about writing an article about Scarlett Johansson and the fascinating copyright and privacy issues raised when OpenAI used a sound-alike voice for its AI chatbot, clearly hoping to capitalize on people’s memories of her role as the voice of an AI in the movie “Her.” Most of you would only look at the…