Earlier this week, Nolan Arbaugh, a 29-year old, quadriplegic, Neuralink patient live-streamed a game of chess he played. He was able to control the computer by using the Neuralink implant in his brain. Arbaugh suffered a diving accident which left him quadriplegic, but has found a way to control his senses using the Neuralink chip....
It’s not like you really needed another reason to quit Facebook, but news originating out of a federal court paint Facebook as a company willing to use any means necessary for advantage. Including means no security professional would authorize. A federal court in California unsealed documents detailing an in-house spy program called Project Ghostbusters to...
It’s no secret artificial intelligence is killing the planet. ChatGPT consumes a half-million kilowatt hours of electricity daily. That’s 17,000 times the daily usage of an American household. Just as the mood around AI begins to sour, Nvidia announced its latest GPU, the Blackwell, that cranks out 20 petaflops at 25% of the power of...
It’s not the world’s premier data privacy law, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), but it does offer a great deal of data privacy for Americans. Albeit, ham handedly. Yesterday, in another show of bipartisan spirit, the US House of Representatives passed the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act. The bill prohibits...
This is an article I wanted to write. If there is anyone who would be scared of AI supplanting them, it would be Tyler Perry. The producer of the hilariously mocked, A Fall from Grace, and latest project, Mea Culpa, saw a demo of Sora that changed his outlook on movie making. I don’t knock...
Talk about cheating. To be filed in the, “do what I say, not what I do,” column. In a stunning turn of events; teachers, after lamenting the potential impact ChatGPT may have on the integrity of essay education, have turned to a GPT powered tool to grade their students’ work. Writable a Generative AI teaching...
There’s no shortage of examples of corporate AIs running rampant. What is rare is an AI company employee taking a responsible stance on the technology. Earlier this week, Shane Jones, a Microsoft software engineering manager sent an open letter to the Federal Trade Commission and Microsoft’s Board of Directors regarding the dangers of the company’s...
We Americans are a spoiled lot. The vast majority of the world haggles for their goods and services at the market or in the store. Demand pricing has been the norm at UK’s Tesco (British Wal-Mart) stores for decades. Newly emigrated Americans are used to wheeling and dealing for everything from apples to electronics as...
The last several weeks have been abuzz in science technology. Science and fantasy buffs have been going wild over Twitter posts featuring an invisibility cloak invented by Chinese scientists. These posts have been mostly propagandistic in nature with an underlying criticism of the US being left behind. I’ve been critical of our focused efforts of...
In another lifetime, Intel was the world’s chip leader. Then came the rise of 3D graphics cards, followed by cellphones, and then came AI. Intel watched as its chip dominance frittered away as Qualcomm and ARM began supplying chips for phones that were as powerful as desktop computers. The rise of AI repurposed graphics cards...