Who’s Kidding Who? We’ve been seeing a lot of media attention recently about OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and Meta putting limits on AI to protect the electoral process this year, so that the ‘will of the people shall be served’ (jeez, I nearly typed ‘severed’ there!). OpenAI will stop its tools from pretending to be human, […]
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We Brits love a good recession. It gives us something else to complain about, other than the weather. (In the interests of transparency, I’m using the royal ‘we’ from the warmth of an early South African autumn.) At 07h00 GMT today, that’s exactly what we got. A much-predicted recession just in time to arm the […]
This year, there’s going to be a significant amount of traffic to the moon. The reason for this is to confirm the presence of water and to figure out how to extract it. 53 years ago… Signs of water vapour were first detected by Apollo 14. More evidence has surfaced since, around the moon’s poles. […]
Last night, 120 million Americans were treated to a nail-biting win by the Kansas City Chiefs over the San Francisco 49er’s. It was a hell of a game which went into that rarest of moments at this annual affair; overtime. The final score was 25 – 22 That same audience was also treated to Usher […]
Almost every day, headline-hogger Elon Musk manages to fill our screens with news that excites, sickens, surprises, revolts, frightens, amuses, angers, etc. Name any particular emotion, and Musk evokes a daily dose of it, and the opposite. On this particular day, we offer up a fact a lot of people know. But how many have […]
Live on CNN this weekend was the personification of everything wrong with social media. Mark Zuckerberg. On the twentieth anniversary of Facebook, the founder of Meta attempted to deride his own company’s research. But first he apologized to parents whose children have had mental health issues – some resulting in suicide – then insisted that […]
Catch 22 is the terminology describing a problem for which the only solution is impossible because of circumstances inherent to the problem. Its origin is Joseph Heller’s book of the same name, first published in 1961. A literary masterpiece that’s considered to be the greatest satirical work ever produced, in any language or culture. Fact […]
It’s complicated. Actually, it’s so complicated that if you were a copyright lawyer you’d be pinching yourself because what’s happening right now can’t possibly be true; it must be a dream. Because you just hit paydirt, baby. For at least the next ten years. And you have generative AI to thank. Of course, if you’re […]
In the movie Interstellar, which begins in 2067, we are treated to a scene in a classroom. The School Principal is explaining to an exasperated parent that the Apollo mission to the moon never happened. It was a public relations scam to force the Soviet Union to bankrupt itself by trying to beat the Americans. […]
Yet another incident has rocked the under-fire Boeing company. And just hours after Secretary of State Blinken’s Boeing 737 reported an oxygen failure. The hinge of a tray table on a Boeing 787 failed and fell into the lap of a distraught passenger. There was nothing on the tray as the passenger in question, Peregrine […]
