Required Reading for the Imminent AI Tsunami
when I first moved to Santa Monica, I was very excited to witness my first Waymo RoboTaxi (and my first Optimus humanoid robot). I took my first ride in 2023, and having spent years working at the bleeding edge of functional computer vision / machine learning research, I was technically quite impressed. My [ ] The post Why I m Anti Waymo, and Pro Human Drivers appeared first on .
An ever-growing number of my friends have told me (I often ask What do you ask ChatGPT? ) that they use an AI Therapist as their primary go-to for mental health therapy. Responses often go something along the lines of Chat listens, he hears me, he gives really good insight and advice, and (and this is [ ] The post Meet your new AI Therapist : Layin on tha Couch, talkin to Chat appeared first on .
The August 2025 issue of Vogue magazine featured a two-page ad spread by Guess . with? An AI Supermodel. Two well-established brands in the fashion industry. Two well-financed entities. And this is the punchline: For whatever reason, Guess decided to commission an AI artist to create AI supermodel fakes. And to place a teeny-weeny near invisible [ ] The post AI Supermodel : And They All Came…
Almost overnight, a new content form has literally done a viral takeover of my Instagram reels. If you haven t seen it yet, you will soon. The algorithm wants you to. Its AI Video, and called, variously, the Bigfoot and Yeti VLOG , Sasquatch Yeti, Bigfoot, Yeti the Hussies etc. What is it? Why is [ ] The post Bigfoot and Yeti VLOG / Sasquatch Buddie AI-Video Meme Floods the 2025 Internets appeared…
JCM — aka John Calvin Morris — was a true genius. He was called, lovingly, the Redneck Sophisticate. I first met Mr. Morris in the fall of 1987, when I was just 17 years old. I had run away from home and moved to Blairsville, Georgia. It was my dream to become an architect, a [ ] The post John Calvin Morris, Architect : The Redneck Sophisticate c.1988 appeared first on .
The Universe is a Dance Club : House of YES 2025.03.03 Mon — 08:39 [TS] It all began as an innocent sounding invitation to fly up to Chicago and go to an EDM concert together. I was more excited to see Quinn again than to go to the concert some DJ named Jan Blomqvist [ ] The post Ride the Unicorn : The Nexus of All Quantum Universes is a Cosmic Dance Floor appeared first on .
There has been a lot of noise in the mainstream press about the massive buildout of AI datacenters across the world.. with the latest being an audacious announcement by the Trump presidency of the $500 billion Project Stargate. The primary market signal of this buildout is CapEx, or capital expenditures, reported by the top 5 [ ] The post AI DataCenters Training Runs 2025 : How much Energy, how…
I spent more than a year pulling my hair out about the non-zero chance of AI being the singular agent of human extinction warning everyone who would listen to me (which was, in the end, quite a lot of people). Getting the facts straight. Collaborating with one of the early harbingers, Max Tegmark and his [ ] The post Fear Not : AI Utopia, AI Dystopia, all at once: Embracing the Contradiction…
Storytelling is key to human experience. It sits at the very core of our identity as both individuals ( what is your personal narrative? ) and as a civilization ( the American Dream ) and a species ( Creation, Manifest Destiny, Evolution, the Civilized Ape, Masters of the Universe ). Traditional narrative has always been linear, perhaps due to the nature [ ] The post Quantum Narratives: a…
Many youngsters, born safely after the dawn of the new millenium, do not have proper context to appreciate the modern miracle of the smartphone, or what i call the iPhone vs Supercomputer comparison. The fact is, that the phone you carry in your pocket literally packs the computing punch of the world s fastest supercomputer of [ ] The post iPhone vs SuperComputer : When the Black Mirror in your…