Browsers, Chatbots, or Both?

If you are like most people I know, the default web application on your phone or computer is your internet browser. It seems we spend a huge amount of time looking for information and relying on our browsers to find it for us. The problem of course is that even though our browsers return possibly

What will be the next big thing in AI?

In my book (https://amzn.to/43P6uaB) I suggested that the AI revolution is going to develop along the lines of the personal computer revolution in the late 1970’s. That revolution had a slow start with hobbyists, then grew to a handful of manufacturers (Apple, Atari, Commodore, etc.) Even IBM’s late entry to this field was lackluster by

Can AI Create Decent Music?

As an amateur blues guitarist, I looked at a lot of AI composition tools as I was finishing a new book on AI (https://amzn.to/43P6uaB) co-authored by my friend George White, an AI expert since the late 1960’s. While the book mentions some tools that don’t quite fit the bill, a new tool arrived (http://suno.com) that

Kin: A personal chatbot

I’ve been a beta tester for a new conversational chatbot, Kin (http://mykin.ai). This tool has some amazing features that make it quite different from another tool, Pi.ai. For one thing, every conversation is encrypted so that even the good folks at Kin can’t read your conversations. Some of this security is driven by Danish rules

How are you Elmo?

A recent tweet by the Sesame Street character Elmo has taken X (twitter) by storm! The tweet was simply: “Elmo is just checking in! How is everybody doing?” As of this writing, this tweet has had 180 million views, 114,000 likes, and more than 12,000 comments. The tweet has also received responses from prominent companies

Deepfakes and the Coming Elections

2024 is a year where Americans will choose the next president and fill numerous other highly contested political positions. More than ever, people who report the news need to be able to protect themselves from being tricked by deepfakes, whether based on text, images, or even videos. This is especially important today because of the

How educators should choose a chatbot

While I mention many chatbots in our new book on AI (in press), we have two favorites and there is a reason they should probably be your favorites as well. It isn’t just because they are free, have few hallucinations, or have great versatility. It is because, unlike many other chatbots, they provide the sources

The revolution is at hand

Those of you who know me know that while I may be wrong, I’m rarely uncertain. The certainty I want to share today is the impact of the modern AI revolution. Whether you have used tools like DALL-E or ChatGPT since their inception, or are fairly new to the game, know this: The current AI

AI or Human, How Can We Tell?

Chatbots have become so sophisticated and plentiful, that it is possible that some people are using them to write complete articles. This made me wonder if one of these tools could read a complete text and then tell if it was written by a human, AI, or both. To test this out, I used Claude.ai,

The Challenge Facing OpenAI

Several authors, including John Grisham, Michael Connelly, David Baldacci, and others, are suing OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, for copyright infringement. The authors allege that OpenAI used their books to train its AI chatbot without permission, resulting in “flagrant and harmful infringements of plaintiffs’ registered copyrights”. To check this out,  I conducted an experiment ―