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... by John Macdonald | Jun 14, 2025 | AI, The250
Apple just published an interesting paper. The TL;DR: Current Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) still suck as the complexity of the problem increases. Also, adding more resources (i.e., compute power, etc.) and better... by John Macdonald | Jun 10, 2025 | AI, The250
I live about 70 miles east of the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. It’s been shuttered since 2019. “Exelon announced in 2017 that it would shut down Three Mile Island Unit 1 unless the state stepped in with a financial rescue of...