Perplexed-ity?
I came across this blog post from Cloudfare: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
I’ve read and heard a lot of positive things about Perplexity’s Comet browser. I want to like them and I want to cheer for them but jeesh Louise I just can’t when they repeatedly flaunt the crawling rules. I get it; there’s this sense of desparation when you work at a tech company with cool technology and yet you have such a small market share and you try so hard. Maybe Apple will buy them?
My other musing would be about Anthropic. Here’s an 800 pound Gorilla in the frontier model space that is apparently making money had over fist, and could quity possibly be crippled by a class action suit based on the fact they stole ebooks to train their system.
Save the manuals, always – AppleWorks 6
AppleWorks 6 I know nothing of AppleWorks 6 or FileMaker Pro 7. However, I was spending time recently going through old digital photos and came across some pics of stuff I was decluttering when my Dad moved from independent living to assistant living back in 2018. I...
Subscribed to One Useful Thing
One Useful Thing is the name of Ethan Mollick's substack newsletter. Ethan is the Co-Director of the Wharton Generative AI Labs. Wharton Generative AI Labs has lots of good information including a prompt library: https://gail.wharton.upenn.edu/prompt-library/ Check...
“Accumulation of Cognitive Debt”
There's an article published at MIT that studied "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 This blog post was pitched as a rebuttal of sorts to the MIT study - definitely...
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...