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.
Comparing LLM responses
LLM Responses compared I thought a nice exercise would be to take a relatively simple prompt and assess how the Closed and Open models currently available compare. This is the prompt that I used: <PROMPT> I’m taking my daughter to an oral surgeon today to...
The upside of AI
Positive thoughts? I came across two older items last week that really made me feel good about Artificial Intelligence and some of the good aspects and possibilities. Like most people grounded in reality, the very impact of AI's disruption on the job front and...
That “aha!” moment – a simple image
I finally committed to the "Plus" ($20 a month) version of ChatGPT and have been finding more and more things to use it for, and trying my best not to use it as lazy google. Hum de dum and I'm looking at making an AI Policy for TQuist, as well as provide information...
Anthropic’s AI Fluency course
Here's the link to Anthropic's AI Fluency course: https://www.anthropic.com/ai-fluency
Alexa, cook me some eggs!
NY Times / AMZN deal Here's an article from The Verge about The New York Times recent deal with Amazon do deliver its “editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences,” I shudder to think how little The Gray Lady is getting paid. However, I hope the AI...
Oh the Humanity!’s Last Exam!
Humanity's Last Exam Benchmarks are interesting. Here's the deep thought - at what point in the overall benchmark process will AI inject bias into the benchmark test? And to what end? Maybe not so deep a thought. Humanity's Last Exam has been bantered about...
Rollups best left to fruit
The Neuron newsletter served up this TechCrunch article about Read the article https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/01/early-ai-investor-elad-gil-finds-his-next-big-bet-ai-powered-rollups/. Here's a quote from the article: "The idea is to identify opportunities to buy...