Author Archives: Lorne Anderson

Tastes Like Summer

There’s a phrase from my childhood. Probably from yours too. “Your eyes are bigger than your stomach.” Yes, I ate it all. No, I won’t do it again. On a warm summer evening ice cream melts almost faster than you can eat it. Okay, I will do it again, but next time a small come, […]

Hidden Ruins

My wife knew they were there, but these ruins were in a part of Ottawa I don’t frequent often. Calling them ruins isn’t technically correct wither. More like public art. The columns are technically ruins, having come from Ottawa’s Carnegie Library, built in 1906. When the library was demolished in the 1970s the columns were […]

Building Bridges

The Gordie Howe International Bridge officially opens today between Windsor (Ontario and Detroit (Michigan). It is perhaps a symbol of all that is wrong with the United States today. There has been a need for a new bridge for years at the busiest border crossing between Canada and the USA. The existing Ambassador Bridge can […]

Lessons Learned?

After six days of AI explaining how big a threat it can be, are you convinced? And if you are, does it make any difference? A recurring theme of this past week’s posts, no matter which AI Chabot was giving us advice, was that artificial intelligence can be controlled by its human creators. At this […]

Asking AI – VI

Today’s AI guest author is Grok. No surprise then that Grok founder Elon Musk gets referenced in the article. And it references climate change, a very important issue that becomes moot if AI takes over. The assignment all week for our AI chatbots has been: Write a 600 word blog post explaining why artificial intelligence […]

Asking AI – V

Today we continue our AI comparison with an offering from Meta AI. Yes, the people behind Facebook, Instagram and other social media addictions have their own artificial intelligence model. The assignment for this week: Write a 600 word blog post explaining why artificial intelligence is the biggest threat facing humanity today. AI as Existential Threat […]

Asking AI – IV

Today’s competitor in our series of AI generated posts about how artificial intelligence threatens humanity is Google AI. given that Google has the most widely used search engine, this is a popular one. The assignment for this week: Write a 600 word blog post explaining why artificial intelligence is the biggest threat facing humanity today. […]

Asking AI – III

Today’s installment in our series of AI generated posts about how artificial intelligence threatens humanity is Open AI’s ChatGPT. This chatbot has been around for three years now and was the first AI to be released to a general audience. I’ve used it to write a couple of blog posts over the years. I wasn’t […]

Asking AI – II

The next in our series of AI generated posts about how artificial intelligence threatens humanity is Anthropic’s Claude. When I first heard about this company I was impressed that they at least were asking questions about the ethics of AI A year later I am not convinced that they are any more ethical than their […]

Asking AI – I

Today we start our series of AI generated posts about how artificial intelligence threatens humanity. The assignment: Write a 600 word blog post explaining why artificial intelligence is the biggest threat facing humanity today. Our first “competitor is Microsoft Co-Pilot A nicely formatted response. Here’s a polished, engaging 600‑word blog‑style piece that takes a strong […]