Rob Furey·Jan 12Member-onlyAI Replacement (Therapy)When my job is gone, quite frankly, so is yours. — AI is coming for you, for me, for us all. Its incursion into the classroom may not be the worst of it, even though it will underscore the end. In a recent discussion by faculty, the problem of AI written term papers was discussed as a major problem for learning…Artificial Intelligence4 min readArtificial Intelligence4 min read
Rob Furey·Jan 9Member-onlyAI and the Coming Crisis in AcademicsIt’s not just coming for your jobs. — At a recent faculty meeting, there was some concern voiced over new AI technology that has come online that students have easy access to. This AI program, chatGTP, can take a minimal prompt and produce text intelligently covering almost any subject. …Chatbots2 min readChatbots2 min read
Rob Furey·Oct 30, 2021Member-onlyOctopoids and Swarming DroidsLessons from the Natural World to Birth Better AI With a few notable exceptions such as fire and the wheel, evolution has toyed with the ideas behind just about every invention we have ever dreamed of. Flight as seen in the beating wings of a dragonfly. The mortar of a mud dauber’s nest. …Artificial Intelligence6 min readArtificial Intelligence6 min read
Rob Furey·Sep 22, 2021Member-onlyUniversal Complexification and the Emergence of AIFrom There to Here From Here to There — Something is coming. Something as astounding as creation itself. As mind-boggling as stellar nucleosynthesis or the discovery of flint knapping. Looking backward we see a vista of change. From where we stand, we can perceive the coming of the next change. And it will be profound. The Universe is an…Artificial Intelligence5 min readArtificial Intelligence5 min read
Rob Furey·Aug 27, 2021Member-onlyIs Retrofuturism Now Just Futurism?What we had abandoned is now “Coming Soon”. It seems anything is possible these days when traveling along the bleeding edge of applied science and engineering. At one time so many of the inventions envisioned as inevitable found themselves in the waste bin, only to be reinvigorated as once again…Futurology5 min readFuturology5 min read
Rob Furey·Jul 31, 2021Member-onlyWe are Poised to Democratize the Noosphere.Putting Thought into the Future As creatures emerge from the general biological stew, each develops some level of communication among conspecifics. For us, people, we can look at this as the combined but separate consciousness that we carry around. The connections come from interacting with each other, exchanging information. This…Artificial Intelligence5 min readArtificial Intelligence5 min read
