by John Macdonald | Oct 1, 2023 | AI, The250
Just tried this in ChatGPT: “You are a life coach specializing in personal development. You have a middle-aged client who is bored with their work and a little depressed. Create a self-directed exercise to help your client explore possibilities, both with work... by John Macdonald | Sep 29, 2023 | AI, The250
AI is only as smart as (all of) humanity, but not one tick more. It aggregates knowledge. Crunches numbers at lightspeed. Finds correlations that we missed. Yet it lacks original thought. Can’t philosophize. Can’t dream. It’s a tool, not a mentor. AI... by John Macdonald | Sep 26, 2023 | AI, The250
Humans have been competing with machines and systems for over a hundred years. The human creator can win if he asks himself the right question. We got machines and assembly lines pumping out millions of coffee mugs. We can go to Walmart and buy as many as we want in... by John Macdonald | Sep 25, 2023 | AI, The250
Hey, “creatives”…Welcome to the working world. Some very famous authors are suing OpenAI, claiming copyright infringement. Similar suits have been brought for comedy and images. But these lawsuits have two prongs to them:... by John Macdonald | Sep 13, 2023 | AI, The250
ChatGPT can be a writer’s friend. ChatGPT is already my friend as a software developer. I do use it to help me write code just about every day. I’ve described it as a crappy intern. But as I’ve gotten better at managing it (i.e., prompt... by John Macdonald | Aug 29, 2023 | AI, The250
Neuralink (one of the Elon’s companies) is working on a brain-computer interfaces. They’re making progress, but they have a ways to go. If we assume they, or someone else in the field, are successful, what then? Do we all become bionic? Will regular humans...