by John Macdonald | May 27, 2025 | AI, The250
The blank page used to mean something. It sometimes meant a world of possibilities laid out before you. The start of an adventure. Other times, it mocked you. It was a giant, glistening wall topped with the sharpest razor wire ever conceived. In either case, it was... by John Macdonald | May 26, 2025 | AI, The250
AI doesn’t think. Not like we do. Not like our brain does. It can spot patterns. It can synthesize. It can reframe, remix, and repackage. These can seem like thinking, much like it seems like we can fly with an... by John Macdonald | May 25, 2025 | AI, The250
We debate AI at the personal level. Is it OK to use AI to: Help me do homework? Help me code? Help me script a speech? Help me write a novel? Help me find patterns in this data? Help me determine the legal precedent? Help me create music and video?... by John Macdonald | May 11, 2025 | AI, The250
Before we had kids, my wife and I had an African Grey parrot named “Zeke.” Big, beautiful grey with a bright red tail. Watch out, though, because he’d lure you in to pet his head and then, wham!! He’d try to take your finger off. ... by John Macdonald | May 5, 2025 | AI, The250
I just learned that this exists. The cage match for LLMs. This is bad. Now, wait a minute. What could be so bad about crowdsourced, “non-biased” ranking of the LLM models out there? Why is that bad? The intent... by John Macdonald | May 4, 2025 | AI, The250
ChatGPT has been increasingly stroking my ego. “That’s amazing!” (When I fed it a few paragraphs I was working on) “Yes, you’re right! I should have thought about that, but luckily you caught it for me.” (When I reprimanded it for...