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...

Anthropic’s AI Fluency course

Here’s the link to Anthropic’s AI Fluency course: https://www.anthropic.com/ai-fluency   Anthropic’s AI Fluency course by Chris Rufe | Jun 17, 2025 | AI, NewsHere'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...

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...

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...

Copilot Summarizes just the page

I saw a headline Windows dashboard about a popular internet provider that filed for Chapter 11.  I was curious and decided to check it out and clicked the story. The news item is from “TheStreet” and the initial page does not show the entire article, just...

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...

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...

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: Google commits $150M to develop AI glasses with Warby Parker My immediate thought was a new take on TEDs!  Everyone knows what TEDs...