More than a decade ago, IBM’s Watson beat Ken Jennings. Now, if we take a crude Moore’s law doubling of capability every two years, that would be over six doublings. Is GPT4 64 time better than Watson? Maybe even more. It definitely seems that way. The issue we have is…

I’m impressed by Midjourney’s new release — V5. With generative AI, version improvements seem to mimic the hardware releases of early gaming systems. NES to SNES was a huge improvement, PS3 to PS4 to PS5, etc… large, meaningful leaps. What impresses me is that Midjourney’s improvement is able to consistently…

One of the potential breakthroughs of generative AI may be adapting video to look better on the same hardware. Video itself is a mind trick — it’s just still images passed before our eyes in quick succession. What if each frame could be slightly manipulated to create better transitions for…

I asked GPT4 for some background on a specific question in history. It returned to me information that I found fascinating but in the end was questioning whether it was real. In one instance, I asked for a list of books about the topic and it provided me authoritatively with…

When I was about eight years old, I received a printout from a dot matrix printer of different things that happened on the same day as my birthday and celebrities who shared the same day. In the late eighties / early nineties, this was an amazing fete. Getting these details required a team of researchers. The store that offered the printouts was akin to a Hallmark store and sold birthday gifts, balloons, and cards. I’m not sure how much the service cost but it seemed like a true enlightened experienced.

One thing that I appreciate after playing with the release of GPT4 is that it breaks down problems and shows reasoning. The tone, at least through the limited testing any individual can conduct, seems more modest. …

Where are you, Bard? We heard about you awhile back. It turns out that, like with other generative AI tools, it’s going to get emBARDed into Google products. We are already seeing how Bing is going to use ChatGPT to help automatically create presentations based on a document. This will help remove many of the manual processes and perhaps lead to more compelling presentations. It’s interesting to extend this to a fully baked product. Instead of spending the time preparing the slides of presentation and making them more colorful and alluring, people can focus on the message they wish to impart.

About 17 years ago, I sat down one Saturday and read How To Lie With Statistics. It was a quick and funny read but a great reinforcement to the more bland statistic I thought about that book again when it was mentioned on a Tim Ferriss Podcast featuring Dr. Peter…

The 1998 movie Something About Mary has an amazing bit about 7-minute abs. It’s worth a watch: The gist is that someone wants to ride on the success of 8-Minute Abs by coming out with a 7-Minute Abs… same workout, 1 minute less! The reason I recalled this was after looking at YouTube recommendations. Immediately after watching a few on GPT4, I’m presented with another called “What we know about GPT5”. I mean… come on! Literally a day after it comes out, we’re already wondering what’s next or what’s better.