AI and the Industrial Educational ModelSal Khan (of Khan Academy)’s book on AI and education is at once revolutionary…and far too timid.Jun 14, 2024Jun 14, 2024
Guardian AIngel: Your Child’s Lifelong Tutor, Therapist & CoachIn the mid-1960s, several people became emotionally attached to a shallow, simplistic, MadLibs-style chatbot…modern AIs promise to…Jun 9, 2024Jun 9, 2024
AI, Childhood Education and Fraught TopicsModern AIs can discuss politics, religion, sex, gun laws, human origins, medical ethics, enslavement, the Earth’s shape (flat? spherical?)…Jun 4, 2024Jun 4, 2024
AI and the Homework ApocalypseHomework is dead and the educational establishment is in danger of crumbling. What comes next?May 29, 2024May 29, 2024
Artificial Intelligence: Promise and PerilIn the ’80s and ’90s, I worked with AI researchers and often, not always tactfully, told them their ultimate goal — an “Artificial General…May 27, 20241May 27, 20241
The Feds Prepare to Crush CryptoOn March 9th, President Biden issued an executive order that could lead to the creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). A CBDC…Mar 14, 2022Mar 14, 2022
Bitcoin Surges 8% — Cue the GoatsStories built around asset price changes are the lowest form of journalism. A stock index moves and financial reporters scramble to…Mar 10, 2022Mar 10, 2022
Regulating Crypto Defeats its PurposeMajor crypto-currency exchanges are cooperating with national authorities targeting individual Russian citizens with sanctions but have…Mar 7, 2022Mar 7, 2022
Metaverse: the “Immersed” VR Desktop — Scarface for the MassesSo it turns out there are people using VR headsets for something besides blowing up zombies (trigger warning: gore) and speculating in…Mar 3, 2022Mar 3, 2022
