For some time now there has been one ultimate benchmark for whether or not something has a truly computerized central component: Does it pla...

Lately there's been a little bit of a fad on Facebook: where people are asking ChatGPT to make a caricature of them based on what the AI...

Yesterday I came upon a story that has wound up sticking in my gray matter, because what it foreshadows is going to be world-changing in a w...

This is something I wish Dad were still here to tell about it too.  As much as he disdained computers, he would no doubt find this to be ver...

Well, it turns out that there was one tiny little thing that I've forgotten to do with my book's manuscript.  I totally overlooked t...

I regularly work with artificial intelligence as an AI trainer.  I also have a lot of experience in the mental health field, as both a profe...

I love  this story!! I'm impressed by ChatGPT.  But I've also got a healthy respect for Atari Chess, a cartridge for the classic Ata...

The past three weeks in American life have been extraordinary, to put it mildly.  There hasn't been this much history made in my lifetim...

Regarding Murthy v. Missouri : the Supreme Court decision yesterday about government coercing social media companies to censor users' ac...

No, I am still not going to "write" a blog post using artificial intelligence.  I'm sitting in front of a keyboard composing ...

Doom , arguably the most installed piece of software in the history of anything, today celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of its release. ...

Had to take some photos with my iPhone and send them to my personal e-mail account.  But when I was about to use them I was hit with a shock...

This is already the scariest thing I've seen all month... and it's only October 2nd.  A terrible, terrible line has been crossed.  A...

Hey gang, got something really special for you.  How often is it that you have the chance to get in on the ground floor of a new piece of te...

You might have noticed a slight addition to this blog.  It's on the header, toward the right of the screen.  There now appears the follo...

This coming December will mark thirty years since the original computer game Doom was released by id Software.  Gadzooks!!  Where did all th...

The notion has been bugging me for a few years now: could my old Atari 2600 - technology that's fully four decades old - be made to wor...

For whatever reason, over the weekend I found myself musing on how far the Intertubes have come from the crazy days of dial-up PPP and ICQ a...

Thank the Lord this isn't a Super Mario Brothers game.  Or a Fallout title. So here's the conceit: if you die in Upsilon Circuit ,...