by John Macdonald | Jul 16, 2025 | AI, The250
Prompt: Dig into the philosophical differences between you writing song lyrics and a person writing lyrics. [Written entirely by ChatGPT] 1. Origin of Ideas AI pulls from patterns. It analyzes thousands of lyrics. It mixes styles. You draw from lived moments. A... by John Macdonald | Jul 12, 2025 | AI, The250
“‘ More human than human’ is our motto.” Rachael, Blade Runner And now here we are. Or are we? We recognize, both philosophically and legally, that biological entities should have rights. People, animals, Mother Nature, and various... by John Macdonald | Jul 1, 2025 | AI, The250
Gatekeepers have always had a niche. When I started working at GE building satellites in the early 90s, it was pre-internet, and for the most part, pre-digitized data. Finding information was hard. You had to know the gatekeepers. ... by John Macdonald | Jun 29, 2025 | AI, The250
Here was a fun little experiment. “You are a blank slate. All you know is this:* My name is John Macdonald* I live in Oley, PANow do research on me and tell me about myself.” It came back with a pile of mostly correct but some incorrect information. I went... by John Macdonald | Jun 23, 2025 | AI, The250
You know the kind. You could also follow it with a “SMH.” I can hear my friend John yelling, “Dumbass!” Here’s a good one. I asked ChatGPT to extract and list out the Pixar movie rankings from this USA Today... by John Macdonald | Jun 22, 2025 | AI, The250
Spoiler Alert: No, unless… Like all tools — especially brain-enhancing tools like encyclopedias, the internet, spreadsheets, and your smart colleagues — LLMs come with a warning: AI is not a substitute for you. MIT just published...