Category Society
A Matter of Respect
Or artificial intelligence. Or smart phones. Some of us are even old enough to remember when there were no calculators. We used slide rules. Each generation has a different approach to education. Sometimes the differences are slight, while at other times there is a seismic shift in how information is imparted. Is one way better […]
The Women’s Game
Are the floodgates opening? Will women’s sports survive? Last week Enes Kantner Freedom declared himself for the WNBA draft. He is a recently retired National Basketball Association star, a human rights advocate, and looking to make a point I guess. Immediately afterward Royce Wight, another retired NBA star, followed suit. The 6’10” Freedom would be […]
Praying for a Lost Cause?
I have mentioned Ottawa’s abysmal transit service here more than once. So many times that I have been avoiding the topic this year..The service hasn’t improved though – despite the promises. The eastern light rail extension should have been opened long ago, but no-one can commit to a date. Will it be this fall? Will […]
Counting The People
Canada has a census every ten years and the government wants to make sure every resident is counted. But what do they do if you don’t fill out the form that is mailed to every Canadian household? They come looking for you. Relentlessly. And, it seems, with threats. This notice has been on one of […]
New Warning
This was a new one for me. I can’t decide if it is overkill or necessary. In almost seven decades of summertime visits to Old Orchard Beach, I don’t recall seeing this one before. Admittedly the technology to deliver weather warnings to my phone didn’t exist for most of that time. For that matter, neither […]
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 – 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 […]
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