Bill Gates has announced he’s giving away 200B over the next 20 years to help address 3 moonshot global needs.  Here’s the announcement from Gates Foundation

There are a lot of people that idolize billionaires and I am not one of them.  A have an internal screed about them and how they are MONEY HOARDERS (old school caps for emphasis).  I don’t respect that behaviour when the obvious suffering blah blah blah – no one wants to hear the screed here.

Bill Gates is really the only one that has a gotten pass from me.  He has actively worked through his Gates Foundation to try to make the  world a better place.  I admire that.

Character.AI and possible suicide

I came across this news item from a while back: This mom believes an AI chatbot is responsible for her son’s suicide  Wow, this is just brutal and my heart goes out to his family and friends. Character.ai and the other named defendents tried to use free speech in...

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SMH – AI-Driven Layoffs

Shaking my head in response to someone responding "We acted too quickly" with respect to downsizing as a result of AI implementation. Step 1 - Jump on AI bandwagon Step 2 - implement (pricey?) AI stuff hot off the presses Step 3 - Layoffs = more $$$ for us!  Or more...

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TEDs v 2.what?

I came across this TechCrunch article covering the recent news that Google is committing 150M to develop AI glasses with Warby Parker: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/google-commits-150m-to-develop-ai-glasses-with-warby-parker/ My immediate thought was a new take on...

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Gemini = Lazy Google?

Now my mind is just equating Gemini to Lazy Google.  For example, I wanted to modify the footer of tquist.com website.  But what footer and where do I modify this?  In the pre-Gemini (or LLM) days I would have typed my question into Google search and looked for...

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AI Musings 5-5-2025

 I am struggling to determine the best way to compare the big three LLMs. Side by side comparison of the same prompt is logical but yeesh, not sure I’ll have the time for such detailed analysis. Another thought I’ve had is to use a different one for time periods and...

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AI Musings 5-2-2025

I have been trying to use the top 3 (in my mind at least) LLMs regularly. I feel most likely to grab Copilot as Microsoft has so nicely put a cool looking rainbow colored icon on the taskbar of Windows.  I scratch my head a little as I don't recall allowing Microsoft...

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