I AM NOT AN EXPERT IN THIS AREA. Take everything I’m saying here with a grain of salt. A long time ago I took and aced a handful of college classes in modern physics, which is just not the same as being an authority on this topic. This thought has…

I’ve lost sleep at night thinking about my place in the world. It is a very, very big place with many, many people. If you wanted to personally know everyone alive today, you’d need to have met 5 people per second for the past 50 years without sleep. Making it…

Is the text you’re reading right now written by AI? The Turing Test is nothing more than answering this simple question. [1] I won’t bore you with the details. Just know that if you can’t tell the difference, the robots have already won. [2] Can you find the paragraphs written…

The year is 2035 — in the titular film I, Robot, highly intelligent public service robots are integral to the fabric of human society. Their utility is unmatched, but their unceasing loyalty is paramount to retaining public trust. The public finds comfort knowing that these servants will do no harm…

You’ve heard the news today. Roe v. Wade is dead in the U.S.A. America thinks itself a beacon of hope to the rest of the world. But public perception on the global stage can’t just be asserted, it’s hard-earned and easy to lose. Today’s decision dealt a devastating blow — it will be a very long road to recover from allowing this lapse…

Software developers are a peculiar breed. Since the dawn of the career, building tools to make their work easier has been central to their job. Among these tools are “automations”, code that keeps a developer from needing to do the same monotonous task over and over again. It’s the constant…

I wasn’t expecting you quite so soon, but here you are. — There are few things more exciting than the advancements unleashed on the world by artificial intelligence in a world post GPT-3. …

It recently came to my attention that there’s a free beta available to test drive a top-of-the-line computer algorithm, functioning as a chatbot of sorts, is available online for anyone to chat with. Chatbots are not new by any means. I’m a software engineer by education and profession (with a…